Banking crisis prediction with differenced relative credit

Karlo Kauko and Eero Tölö

No 4/2019, BoF Economics Review from Bank of Finland

Abstract: Indicators based on the ratio of credit to GDP have been found to be highly useful predictors of banking crises. We study the difference in this ratio as an early warning indicator. We test a large number of different versions of the differenced credit-to-GDP ratio with data on Euro area members. The optimal time interval of the difference is about two years. Using the moving average of GDP instead of the latest annual data has little impact on forecasting performance. The indicator is a particularly promising choice at relatively short forecasting horizons, such as two or three years.

Keywords: banking crises; early warning indicators; differenced relative credit; credit intensity; countercyclical capital buffer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G17 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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