The anatomy of financial vulnerabilities and banking crises

Seung Jung Lee, Kelly E. Posenau and Viktors Stebunovs

Journal of Banking & Finance, 2020, vol. 112, issue C

Abstract: We extend the framework of Aikman et al. (2017) that maps vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial system to a broader set of financial vulnerabilities in 27 advanced and emerging economies. We capture a holistic view of the evolution of financial vulnerabilities before and after a banking crisis. We find that, before a banking crisis, pressures in asset valuations materialize first and then a build-up of imbalances in the external, financial, and nonfinancial sectors occurs. After a crisis, these vulnerabilities subside, but sovereign debt imbalances rise as governments try to mitigate the consequences of the crisis. Our main indexes, which aggregate these vulnerabilities, predicts banking crises better than the credit-to-GDP gap (CGG) or sector-specific vulnerability indexes, especially at long horizons. Our aggregate indexes also explain the variation in the severity of banking crises and the duration of recessions relatively well, as it incorporates possible spillover and amplification channels of financial vulnerabilities from one sector to another. Therefore, our framework is useful for macroprudential policy making and crisis management.

Keywords: Banking crises; Financial vulnerabilities; Early warning indicators; Credit-to-GDP gap; Macroprudential policy; Crisis management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C82 D14 G01 G12 G21 G23 G32 H63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2018.04.013

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