An "almost-too-late" warning mechanism for currency crises
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Slacik, Tomás (03.03.2007)
Numero
4/2007Julkaisija
Bank of Finland
2007
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:bof-201408071896Tiivistelmä
We propose exploiting the term structure of relative interest rates to obtain estimates of changes in the timing of a currency crisis as perceived by market participants.Our indicator can be used to evaluate the relative probability of a crisis occurring in one week as compared to a crisis happening after one week but in less than a month.We give empirical evidence that the indicator performs well for two important currency crises in Eastern Europe: the crisis in the Czech Republic in 1997 and the Russian crisis in 1998. Keywords: Currency crisis, term structure of interest rates, transition economies. JEL classi.cation: F31, F34, E43.
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Published in Economics of Transition, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 123-141