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Crisis atlas / YUG

Yugoslavia

2 distinct crisis events in 2 episodes, 19831988, from the union of five primary chronologies.

Debt profile: government debt trajectory and crisis-start levels →

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Banking crises
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Currency crises
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Sovereign debt crises
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Crisis events
1983–1988
Span

Crisis timeline

Every distinct (year, type) event, most recent first, with the chronologies flagging it. Start-year sources (GMD, JST) do not mark continuation years, so long episodes show lower agreement after their first year.

  1. 1988
    Sovereign debtlaeven_valencia1 source
  2. 1983
    Sovereign debtlaeven_valencia1 source

Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) | Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory R6 | Laeven & Valencia (2020) | Reinhart-Rogoff via HBS BFFS | ECB/ESRB Financial Crises Database Methodology

Macro context around each episode

Inflation, central-bank policy rate, and government debt in a window of five years either side of each crisis episode (consecutive crisis years bridged across gaps of up to two years). Crisis years shaded.

1983

Sovereign debt

No macro panel coverage for this window.

1988

Sovereign debt

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Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) Inflation is % year over year; policy rate is the central-bank rate in %; government debt is % of GDP. Methodology