Indicators of financial crises do work!: an early-warning system for six Asian countries

Lestano Lestano, Jan Jacobs and Gerard Kuper

No 200313, CCSO Working Papers from University of Groningen, CCSO Centre for Economic Research

Abstract: Indicators of financial crisis generally do not have a good track record. This paper presents an early warning system for six countries in Asia, in which indicators do work.We distinguish three types of financial crises, currency crises, banking crises and debt crises, and extract four groups of indicators from the literatureexternal, financial, domestic (real and public), and global indicatorsthat are likely to affect the probability of financial crises. The significance of the indicator groups is tested in a multivariate logit model on a panel of six Asian countries for the period 1970:01-2001:12. An additional feature is that we examine four different currency crisis dating definitions. A within-sample signal extraction experiment reveals that some currency crises dating schemes outperform others.

Date: 2003
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