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Ensayos sobre POLÍTICA ECONÓMICA

versión impresa ISSN 0120-4483

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GUARIN, Alexander; GONZALEZ, Andrés; SKANDALIS, Daphné  y  SANCHEZ, Daniela. An Early Warning Model for Predicting Credit Booms Using Macroeconomic Aggregates. Ens. polit. econ. [online]. 2014, vol.32, n.spe73, pp.77-86. ISSN 0120-4483.

In this paper, we propose an alternative methodology to determine the existence of credit booms, which is a complex and crucial issue for policymakers. In particular, we exploit the Mendoza and Terrones's (2008) idea that macroeconomic aggregates contain valuable information to predict lending boom episodes. Specifically, our econometric method is used to estimate and predict the probability of being in a credit boom. We run empirical exercises on quarterly data for six Latin American countries between 1996 and 2011. In order to capture simultaneously model and parameter uncertainty, we implement the Bayesian model averaging method. As we employ panel data, the estimates may be used to predict booms of countries which are not considered in the estimation. Overall, our findings show that macroeconomic variables contain relevant information to identify and to predict credit booms. In fact, with our method the probability of detecting a credit boom is 80%, while the probability of not having false alarms is greater than 92%.

Palabras clave : Early warning indicator; Credit booms; Bayesian Model Averaging; Emerging markets.

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