Commodity Price Movements and Banking Crises /

We develop an empirical model to predict banking crises in a sample of 60 low-income countries (LICs) over the 1981-2015 period. Given the recent emergence of financial sector stress associated with low commodity prices in several LICs, we assign price movements in primary commodities a key role in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eberhardt, Markus
Other Authors: Presbitero, Andrea
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/153
Online Access:Full text available on IMF