Assessing Early Warning Systems: How Have they Worked in Practice?

Author/Editor:

Andrew Berg ; Eduardo Borensztein ; Catherine A Pattillo

Publication Date:

March 1, 2004

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

Since 1999, the IMF's staff has been tracking several early-warning-system (EWS) models of currency crisis. The results have been mixed. One of the long-horizon models has performed well relative to pure guesswork and to available non-model-based forecasts, such as agency ratings and private analysts' currency crisis risk scores. The data do not speak clearly on the other long-horizon EWS model. The two short-horizon private sector models generally performed poorly.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2004/052

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

March 1, 2004

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451847284/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA0522004

Pages:

45

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