Are Emerging Market Currency Crises Predictable? - a Test
51 Pages Posted: 17 Jan 2006
Date Written: Januar 2006
Abstract
This paper analyzes the predictability of emerging market currency crises by comparing the often used probit model to a new method, namely a multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network (ANN) model. According to the results, both models were able to signal currency crises reasonably well in-sample, but the forecasting power of these models out-of-sample was found to be rather poor. Only in the case of Russian (1998) crisis were both models able to signal the crisis well in advance. The results reinforced the view that developing a stable model that can predict or even explain currency crises is a challenging task.
Keywords: Currency crises, emerging markets, artificial neural networks
JEL Classification: F31, E44, C25, C23, C45
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