Early warning indicators of banking crises: expanding the family

Iñaki Aldasoro, Claudio Borio and Mathias Drehmann

BIS Quarterly Review, 2018

Abstract: Household and international debt (cross-border or in foreign currency) are a potential source of vulnerabilities that could eventually lead to banking crises. We explore this issue formally by assessing the performance of these debt categories as early warning indicators (EWIs) for systemic banking crises. We find that they do contain useful information. In fact, over the more recent subsample, for household and cross-border debt indicators the information is similar to that of the more commonly used aggregate credit variables regularly monitored by the BIS. Confirming previous work, combining these indicators with property prices improves performance. An analysis of current global conditions based on this richer information set points to the build-up of vulnerabilities in several countries.

JEL-codes: E37 E44 F34 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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