What happens after EM currency collapses?

Emerging economies whose currencies have fallen by 15% or more against the dollar in a single day – as the Argentine peso did yesterday – have fallen into recession in 85% of cases in the last 25 years. Sovereign debt defaults occurred after roughly half of these currency collapses. And Argentina’s government debt looks more similar to the half that defaulted than the half that avoided default.

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