A Financial Conditions Index for Poland

December 19, 2013

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Giang Ho, and Yinqiu Lu. A Financial Conditions Index for Poland, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper constructs a financial conditions index for Poland to explore the link between financial conditions and real economic activity. The index in constructed by applying two complementary approaches—factor analysis and vector auto-regression approach. We evaluate the index’s forecasting performance against a composite leading indicator developed by the OECD. We found that the FCI is highly correlated with GDP growth, attesting to the importance of financial sector in Poland’s economy. In-sample and out-of-sample forecasting exercises indicate that the FCI can outperform the CLI in predicting near-term GDP growth.

Subject: Bond yields, Econometric analysis, Financial conditions index, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Loans, Sovereign bonds, Vector autoregression, Yield curve

Keywords: Bond yields, Constructed FCI, Europe, Factor analysis, Factor FCI, FCI weight, Financial conditions index, Forecasting property, Global, Lending, Lending standard, Loans, Poland, Rate, Sovereign bonds, VAR FCI, Vector auto-regression, Vector autoregression, WIBOR, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

16
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2013/252
Stock No:

WPIEA2013252
ISBN:

9781475540642
ISSN:

1018-5941

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