Sy, Amadou N. R.; Pescatori, Andrea - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
-servicing difficulties in the 1980s, a period of numerous defaults on bank loans. However, defining defaults as debt crises is problematic … define debt crises as events occurring when either a country defaults or its bond spreads are above a critical threshold. We … debt crises, while they do not play any role in explaining defaults after 1994. …