Speculative attacks and currency crises: The Mexican experience

Inci Ötker-Robe () and Ceyla Pazarbaşioĝlu ()

Open Economies Review, 1996, vol. 7, issue 1, 535-552

Abstract: By using data from the Mexican economy, this paper estimates a speculative attack model of currency crises in order to identify the role of macroeconomic fundamentals and early warning signals of a potential currency crisis. A deterioration in fundamentals appears to generate high one-step-ahead probabilities for the observed regime changes during the sample period 1982–1994. Particularly, foreign reserve losses, expansionary output, monetary and fiscal policies, an increase in inflation differentials and the share of short-term foreign currency-indexed debt, and an appreciation of the real exchange rate appear to have contributed to the speculative pressures and the associated regime changes. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996

Keywords: Exchange rates; speculative attacks; economic fundamentals; Mexico; B22; S31; F33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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