eng Science and Education Publishing International Journal of Econometrics and Financial Management 2374-2038 2018-02-25 6 1 1 6 10.12691/ijefm-6-1-1 IJEFM2018611 article Arafet Hamida 1 Tarek Sadraoui tarek.sadraoui@gmail.com 2 Department of Economics, Higher Institute of Management Gabès, Tunisia Department of Quantitative Methods, FESM, Tunisia The purpose of this research is to study the effect of currency crises on economic growth. To do this, we opted for a dynamic panel data model and impulse response functions for a sample of seventeen emerging countries over a period from 1980 to 2014. The main results of the various empirical investigations show that there is a Negative effect of currency crises on short-term economic growth. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ijefm/6/1/1/ijefm-6-1-1.pdf currency crises economic growth impulse response function dynamic panel