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Make It or Break It? Assessing Credit Booms in Developing Countriesâ€

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  • Daniela Marchettini
  • Rodolfo Maino

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In this paper, we argue that the assessment of systemic risk associated with rapid credit growth should be conducted with different tools at different stages of financial development. In particular, using a signal detection framework, we show that, when the level of financial development is low, the most used leading indicator of banking crisis, namely the credit-to-GDP gap, has poor predictive performance, as it is unable to disentangle episodes of financial deepening from bubble-like credit booms. On the contrary, a new class of indicators, comparing credit levels to structural benchmarks, has good capacity to correctly predict financial crises in economies in the early stages of financial development.

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  • Daniela Marchettini & Rodolfo Maino, 2018. "Make It or Break It? Assessing Credit Booms in Developing Countriesâ€," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 27(5), pages 558-586.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:jafrec:v:27:y:2018:i:5:p:558-586.
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