Predicting financial crises: The (statistical) significance of the signals approach
Makram El-Shagi,
Tobias Knedlik and
Gregor von Schweinitz
Journal of International Money and Finance, 2013, vol. 35, issue C, 76-103
Abstract:
The signals approach as an early-warning system has been fairly successful in detecting crises, but it has so far failed to gain popularity in the scientific community because it cannot distinguish between randomly achieved in-sample fit and true predictive power. To overcome this obstacle, we test the null hypothesis of no correlation between indicators and crisis probability in three applications of the signals approach to different crisis types. To that end, we propose bootstraps specifically tailored to the characteristics of the respective datasets. We find (1) that previous applications of the signals approach yield economically meaningful results; (2) that composite indicators aggregating information contained in individual indicators add value to the signals approach; and (3) that indicators which are found to be significant in-sample usually perform similarly well out-of-sample.
Keywords: Early warning system; Signals approach; Bootstrap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2013.02.001
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