In the introduction we noted that there are important common elements in episodes
where banking crises are associated with currency crises. Three of these elements
have been extensively documented in the literature: (i) there are implicit government
guarantees to domestic and foreign bank creditors prior to the currency
crises;45 (ii) there is a rise in domestic interest rates and a fall in aggregate economic
activity after a currency collapse;6 (iii) the crisis is preceeded by a lending
boom .
The final common element in banking/currency crises is that firms and financial
intermediaries borrow extensively from abroad but do not completely hedge