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Determinantes de las crisis cambiarias

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  • Esquivel, Gerardo

    (El Colegio de México)

  • Larraín B, Felipe

    (Escuela de Gobierno Kennedy (KSG), Universidad de Harvard)

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This paper examines the determinants of currency crises with a panel annual dataset for 30 countries between 1975 and 1996. We estimate a probit model with random effects, and find that high rates of seignorage, current account imbalances, real exchange rate misalignment, low foreign exchanges reserves, negative terms of trade shocks, poor growth performance, and a measure of regional contagion all have significant power to explain the presence of currency crisis in our sample. In general, our results can be interpreted as supporting both first and second-generation models of currency crises. Various robustness tests confirm the validity of these results. We also find that currency crises have and important predictable component. Using our benchmark regression we are able to predict correctly a majority of the currency crises that occurred within our sample.// Este artículo examina los determinantes de las crisis cambiarias con un conjunto de datos anuales de 30 países entre 1975 y 1996. Estimamos un modelo probit con efectos aleatorios y descubrimos que las tasas elevadas de señoraje, los desequilibrios de la cuenta corriente, el desanileamiento del tipo de cambio real, la escasez de reservas de divisas, los choque negativos de los términos de intercambio, un precario crecimiento económico y una medida del contagio regional tienen un poder significativo para explicar la presencia de crisis cambiarias en la muestra utilizada. En general, nuestros resultados pueden interpretarse como un apoyo a los modelos de crisis cambiarias de primera y segunda generaciones. Varias pruebas sólidas confirman la validez de estos resultados. Descubrimos también que las crisis cambiarias tienen un importante componente pronosticable. Utilizando nuestra regresión de referencia pudimos pronosticar correctamente la mayoría de las crisis cambiarias ocurridas dentro de la muestra.

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  • Esquivel, Gerardo & Larraín B, Felipe, 2000. "Determinantes de las crisis cambiarias," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 0(266), pages 191-237, abril-jun.
  • Handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:67:y:2000:i:266:p:191-237
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    1. Gerardo Esquivel & Felipe Larraín, 2003. "¿Qué Sabemos Realmente sobre las Crisis Cambiarias?," Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Economía, Instituto de Economía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile., vol. 40(121), pages 656-667.
    2. Gerardo Esquivel & Felipe Larrain B., 2002. "The Impact of G-3 Exchange Rate Volatility on Developing Countries," CID Working Papers 86, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
    3. S. DeVicerte & P. Alvarez & J. Perez & C. Caso, 2008. "Does currency crisis identification matter?," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(5), pages 387-395.

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