Are Currency Crises Predictable? A Test
November 1, 1998
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Summary
This paper evaluates three models for predicting currency crises that were proposed before 1997. The idea is to answer the question: if we had been using these models in late 1996, how well armed would we have been to predict the Asian crisis? The results are mixed but somewhat encouraging. One model, and our modifications to it, provide useful forecasts, at least compared with a naive benchmark. The head-to-head comparison also sheds light on the economics of currency crises, the nature of the Asian crisis, and issues in the empirical modeling of currency crises.
Subject: Balance of payments, Currency crises, Current account, Early warning systems, Econometric analysis, Financial crises, Foreign exchange, Probit models, Real exchange rates
Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Asian crisis, balance of payments crises, crisis countries Thailand, crisis date, crisis index, crisis prediction, crisis probability, Currency crises, currency crisis, Current account, Early warning systems, Global, KLR crisis date, probability of crisis, Probit models, Real exchange rates, vulnerability indicators, WP
Pages:
61
Volume:
1998
DOI:
Issue:
154
Series:
Working Paper No. 1998/154
Stock No:
WPIEA1541998
ISBN:
9781451857207
ISSN:
1018-5941
