Do external imbalances increase the risk of financial crises? This paper studies the experience of 14 developed countries over 140 years (1870–2008). It exploits the long-run data set in a number of different ways. First, the paper applies new statistical tools to describe the temporal and...

Measuring and displaying uncertainty around path-forecasts, i.e. forecasts made in period T about the expected trajectory of a random variable in periods T+1 to T+H is a key ingredient for decision making under uncertainty. The probabilistic assessment about the set of possible trajectories that...