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Early Warning Systems for identifying financial instability

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  • Allaj, Erindi
  • Sanfelici, Simona

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Financial crises prediction is an essential topic in finance. Designing an efficient Early Warning System (EWS) can help prevent catastrophic losses resulting from financial crises. We propose different EWSs for predicting potential market instability conditions, where market instability refers to large asset price declines. The EWSs are based on the logit regression and employ Early Warning Indicators (EWIs) based on the realized variance (RV) and/or price-volatility feedback rate. The latter EWI is supposed to describe the ease of the market in absorbing small price perturbations. Our study reveals that, while RV is important in predicting future price losses in a given time series, the EWI employing the price-volatility feedback rate can improve prediction further.

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  • Allaj, Erindi & Sanfelici, Simona, 2023. "Early Warning Systems for identifying financial instability," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, vol. 39(4), pages 1777-1803.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:intfor:v:39:y:2023:i:4:p:1777-1803
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2022.08.004
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