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Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, 2000

PART TWO: ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL MONITORING AND SURVEILLANCE CHAPTER IV. MONITORING AND SURVEILLANCE: THE THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS Go to:
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Table IV.2. Performance of early warning indicators

Indicator Number of crises with available data Percentage of crises called
Real exchange rate 72 57
Banking crises 26 37
Exports 72 85
Stock prices 53 64
M2/international reserves 70 80
Output 57 77
"Excess" M1 balances 66 61
International reserves 72 75
M2 multiplier 70 73
Domestic credit/GDP 62 56
Real interest rate 44 89
Terms of trade 58 79
Real interest differential 42 86
Imports 71 54
Bank deposits 69 49
Lending rate/deposit rate 33 67
Average = 68.1

Source: Graciela Kaminsky, Saul Lizondo and Carmen Reinhart, "Leading indicators of currency crises", IMF Staff Papers, vol. 45, No. 1 (March 1998), table 1, p. 20.

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