A Financial Conditions Index for South Africa /

The main purpose of this paper is to construct a financial conditions index (FCI) for South Africa. The analysis extracts the index by applying two alternative approaches (principal component analysis and Kalman filter), which identify an unobservable common factor from a group of external and domes...

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Autor principal: Gumata, Nombulelo
Altres autors: Klein, Nir, Ndou, Eliphas
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/196
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF