Anticipating Balance of Payments Crises--The Role of Early Warning Systems

Anticipating Balance of Payments Crises--The Role of Early Warning Systems
Author: Mr.Eduardo Borensztein
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2000-01-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781557758286

Recent years have witnessed an increase in the frequency of currency and balance of payments crises in developing countries. More important, the crises have become more virulent, have caused widespread disruption to other developing countries, and have even had repercussions on advanced economies. To predict crises, their causes must be clearly understood. Two competing strands of theories are reviewed in this paper. The first focuses on the consequences of such policies as excessive credit growth in provoking depletion of foreign exchange reserves and making a devaluation enevitable. The second emphasizes the trade-offs between internal and external balance that the policymaker faces in defending a peg.

Predicting Sovereign Debt Crises

Predicting Sovereign Debt Crises
Author: Paolo Manasse
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2003-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451875258

We develop an early-warning model of sovereign debt crises. A country is defined to be in a debt crisis if it is classified as being in default by Standard & Poor's, or if it has access to nonconcessional IMF financing in excess of 100 percent of quota. By means of logit and binary recursive tree analysis, we identify macroeconomic variables reflecting solvency and liquidity factors that predict a debt-crisis episode one year in advance. The logit model predicts 74 percent of all crises entries while sending few false alarms, and the recursive tree 89 percent while sending more false alarms.

Assessing Financial Vulnerability

Assessing Financial Vulnerability
Author: Morris Goldstein
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780881322378

This study reviews the literature on the origins of currency and banking crises. It presents empirical tests on the performance of alternative early-warning indicators for emerging-market economies. The book also identifies crisis-threshold values for early-warning indicators.

Global Waves of Debt

Global Waves of Debt
Author: M. Ayhan Kose
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2021-03-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464815453

The global economy has experienced four waves of rapid debt accumulation over the past 50 years. The first three debt waves ended with financial crises in many emerging market and developing economies. During the current wave, which started in 2010, the increase in debt in these economies has already been larger, faster, and broader-based than in the previous three waves. Current low interest rates mitigate some of the risks associated with high debt. However, emerging market and developing economies are also confronted by weak growth prospects, mounting vulnerabilities, and elevated global risks. A menu of policy options is available to reduce the likelihood that the current debt wave will end in crisis and, if crises do take place, will alleviate their impact.

Capital Flows and Crises

Capital Flows and Crises
Author: Barry J. Eichengreen
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262550598

An analysis of the connections between capital flows and financial crises as well as between capital flows and economic growth.

A Decade after the Global Recession

A Decade after the Global Recession
Author: M. Ayhan Kose
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2021-03-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464815283

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the 2009 global recession. Most emerging market and developing economies weathered the global recession relatively well, in part by using the sizable fiscal and monetary policy ammunition accumulated during prior years of strong growth. However, their growth prospects have weakened since then, and many now have less policy space. This study provides the first comprehensive stocktaking of the past decade from the perspective of emerging market and developing economies. Many of these economies have now become more vulnerable to economic shocks. The study discusses lessons from the global recession and policy options for these economies to strengthen growth and prepare for the possibility of another global downturn.

Globalization and the International Financial System

Globalization and the International Financial System
Author: Peter Isard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521605076

Economic globalization has given rise to frequent and severe financial crises in emerging market economies. Other countries are also unsuccessful in their efforts to generate economic growth and reduce poverty. This book provides perspectives on various aspects of the international financial system that contribute to financial crises and growth failures, and discusses the remedies that economists have proposed for addressing the underlying problems. It also sheds light on a central feature of the international financial system that remains mysterious to many economists and most non-economists: the activities of the International Monetary Fund and the factors that influence its effectiveness. Dr Isard offers policy perspectives on what countries can do to reduce their vulnerabilities to financial crises and growth failures, and a number of general directions for systemic reform. The breadth of the agenda provides grounds for optimism that the international financial system can be strengthened considerably without revolutionary change.

Sovereign Default Risk Valuation

Sovereign Default Risk Valuation
Author: Jochen Andritzky
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2006-11-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3540374493

Past cycles of sovereign lending and default suggest that debt crises will recur at some point. This book shows why investors should reckon with similar credit events in the future. Surveying the sovereign bond market, the author provides investors with a useful toolkit for analyzing sovereign bonds and foreseeing trends in the international financial architecture. The result should be a better understanding of debt crises and more deliberate investment decisions.

Sovereign Risk and Financial Crisis

Sovereign Risk and Financial Crisis
Author: Silvia Pepino
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137511648

This book provides an original and timely insight into the role that the domestic and international political economy played in the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, combining an innovative theoretical framework with in-depth bond market analysis.

Financial Policies in Emerging Markets

Financial Policies in Emerging Markets
Author: Mario I. Bléjer
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262025256

An overview of the financial vulnerability of emerging market economies and how the impact of exchange rate regimes affects this vulnerability.