Early warning indicators of asset price boom/bust cycles in emerging markets

Abstract

We apply recently developed early warning indicators systems to a cross-section of emerging markets. We find that, with little or no modification, models designed to predict asset price booms/busts in advanced countries may be useful for emerging markets. The concept of monitoring a set of asset prices, real activity (especially investment) and financial (especially credit) indicators is generally found to be efficacious. Keywords: early warning indicators, asset prices, emerging markets JEL classification: E37, E44, E51.