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

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Author/Editor: Andrew Berg, Eduardo Borensztein, Catherine A Pattillo
Release Date: © March, 2004
ISBN : 978-1-45184-728-4
Stock #: WPIEA0522004
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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.

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Crisis prevention , Currencies , Foreign exchange , IMF governance and operations , Operations




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