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Assessing Early Warning Systems: How Have they Worked in Practice?

By Andrew Berg, Eduardo Borensztein, Catherine A Pattillo

March 1, 2004

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Andrew Berg, Eduardo Borensztein, and Catherine A Pattillo. Assessing Early Warning Systems: How Have they Worked in Practice?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed December 4, 2024
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Summary

Since 1999, the IMF's staff has been tracking several early-warning-system (EWS) models of currency crisis. The results have been mixed. One of the long-horizon models has performed well relative to pure guesswork and to available non-model-based forecasts, such as agency ratings and private analysts' currency crisis risk scores. The data do not speak clearly on the other long-horizon EWS model. The two short-horizon private sector models generally performed poorly.

Subject: Currency crises, Early warning systems, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rate arrangements, Financial crises, Foreign exchange

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Balance of payments crisis, Crisis prediction, Crisis risk, Currency crises, Currency crisis, DCSD model, Early warning systems, Exchange rate, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rate arrangements, Forecasting accuracy, KLR crisis, KLR definition, Risk score, Vulnerability indicators, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    45

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2004/052

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0522004

  • ISBN:

    9781451847284

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941