Predicting Fiscal Crises /

This paper identifies leading indicators of fiscal crises based on a large sample of countries at different stages of development over 1970-2015. Our results are robust to different methodologies and sample periods. Previous literature on early warning sistems (EWS) for fiscal crises is scarce and b...

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Hlavní autor: Cerovic, Svetlana
Další autoři: Gerling, Kerstin, Hodge, Andrew, Medas, Paulo
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/181
On-line přístup:Full text available on IMF
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Shrnutí:This paper identifies leading indicators of fiscal crises based on a large sample of countries at different stages of development over 1970-2015. Our results are robust to different methodologies and sample periods. Previous literature on early warning sistems (EWS) for fiscal crises is scarce and based on small samples of advanced and emerging markets, raising doubts about the robustness of the results. Using a larger sample, our analysis shows that both nonfiscal (external and internal imbalances) and fiscal variables help predict crises among advanced and emerging economies. Our models performed well in out-of-sample forecasting and in predicting the most recent crises, a weakness of EWS in general. We also build EWS for low income countries, which had been overlooked in the literature.
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