Are Currency Crises Predictable?

IMF Working Paper No. 97/159

Posted: 10 Jun 1998

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Ilan Goldfajn

Gávea Investimentos; Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) - Department of Economics; Central Bank of Brazil

Rodrigo Valdés

Central Bank of Chile; Ministry of Finance, Chile

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Date Written: December 1997

Abstract

This paper studies whether exchange rate expectations and overvaluations are predictors of currency crises. The results suggest that overvaluation has predictive power in explaining crises. However, although expected depreciation obtained from survey data partially takes different exchange rate misalignment measures into consideration, expectations fail to anticipate currency crises.

JEL Classification: F31, F33

Suggested Citation

Goldfajn, Ilan and Valdés, Rodrigo O., Are Currency Crises Predictable? (December 1997). IMF Working Paper No. 97/159, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=97368

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