Predicting Financial Crises: The Role of Asset Prices
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Summary:
We explore the early warning properties of a composite indicator which summarizes signals from a range of asset price growth and asset price volatility indicators to capture mispricing of risk in asset markets. Using a quarterly panel of 108 advanced and emerging economies over 1995-2017, we show that the combination of rapid asset price growth and low asset price volatility is a good predictor of future financial crises. Elevated levels of our indicator significantly increase the probability of entering a crisis within the next three years relative to normal times when the indicator is not elevated. The indicator outperforms credit-based early warning metrics, a result robust to prediction horizons, methodological choices, and income groups. Our results are consistent with the idea that measures based on asset prices can offer critical information about systemic risk levels to policymakers.
Series:
Working Paper No. 2023/157
Subject:
Asset prices Credit Early warning systems Financial crises Money Prices Systemic crises
Frequency:
regular
English
Publication Date:
August 4, 2023
ISBN/ISSN:
9798400248498/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA2023157
Format:
Paper
Pages:
49
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