This paper aims to investigate the origin and to analyze the mechanisms of forming the main economic imbalances previous to financial crises. For this purpose we first outline a typology of crises depending on the characteristic symptoms, and we identify statistical indicators corresponding to...

The study summarizes the main theories concerning the bidirectional relationship between the evolution of credit and the economic stability, focusing on the "unorthodox" trends of thought, the only ones explaining the negative effects of credit and indebtedness on the sustainability of economic...