“…Their data is part of an irregular, but ongoing, compilation of information on financial crises that has largely been done by staff at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank over almost two decades (Caprio et al, 2005;Caprio and Klingebiel, 1996, 1997, 2002Klingebiel, 2000, 2003;Laeven and Valencia, 2008Lindgren et al, 1996). Researchers studying financial crises and related policy issues have relied heavily upon the related data sets (a brief sample includes Alt et al, 2014;Bush et al, 2014;Gandrud, 2013;Ha and Kang, 2015;Jordana and Rosas, 2014;Keefer, 2007;Kleibl, 2013;Montinola, 2003;Pepinsky, 2012;Rosas, 2006Rosas, , 2009aWibbels and Roberts, 2010). In fact, almost all recent cross-national research on some aspect of financial crises have relied on either the IMF/World Bank data set or another data set by Reinhart and Rogoff (2010), which is itself heavily based on prior versions of the IMF/ World Bank data.…”