A Model to Assess the Probabilities of Growth, Fiscal, and Financial Crises
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Summary:
This paper summarizes a suite of early warning models to assess the probabilities of growth, fiscal, and financial crises in advanced economies and emerging markets. We estimate separate signal-extraction models for each type of crisis and sample of countries, and we use our results to generate “histories of vulnerabilities” for countries, regions, and the world. For the global financial crisis, our models report that vulnerabilities in advanced economies were rooted in the bursting of leveraged bubbles, while vulnerabilities in emerging markets stemmed from lengthy booms in credit and asset prices combined with growing weaknesses in the corporate and external sectors.
Series:
Working Paper No. 2017/282
Subject:
Asset prices Balance of payments Financial crises Financial statements Global financial crisis of 2008-2009 Prices Public financial management (PFM) Sudden stops
English
Publication Date:
December 14, 2017
ISBN/ISSN:
9781484333143/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA2017282
Pages:
42
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