... Institute for International Economics Mexico Foreign currency debt Domestic currency debt The Philippines Foreign currency debt Domestic currency debt South Korea Foreign currency debt Domestic currency ... time, the evidence also suggests that a currency crash aggravates the problems in the banking sector, as the peak of a banking crisis most often occurs following the collapse of thecurrencyThe ... Moody’s foreign currency debt Indonesia Malaysia Mexico The Philippines South Korea Thailand Standard & Poor’s Indonesia Foreign currency debt Domestic currency debt Malaysia Foreign currency...
... that show the best performance forcurrency crises also work well in anticipating banking crises At the same time, there are enough differences regarding the early warning process and in the aftermath ... weight in the forecast than those with poorer ones Ceteris paribus, the greater the incidence of flashing indicators, the higher the presumed probability of a banking or currency crisis For example, ... uses to which that foreign borrowing was put (too much for consumption and not enough for investment), or by the already-weakened state of the banking system (the share of nonperforming loans doubled...
... a crisis, the threshold is below the mean of the indicator Forthe other variables, the threshold is above the mean of the indicator 28 ASSESSING FINANCIAL VULNERABILITY Institute for International ... minimized the noise-to-signal ratio—that is, the ratio of false signals to good signals.24 Table 2.4 lists the thresholds for all the indicators for both currency and banking crises For instance, the ... 20 The real exchange rate is defined on a bilateral basis with respect to the German mark forthe European countries in the sample and with respect to the US dollar for all other countries The...
... under the heading P(C ͉ S) מP(C) The better the indicator, the higher the probability of crisis conditioned on its signaling—that is, the higher the P(C ͉ S)—and the bigger the gap between the ... match the results of the 20-country sample Forcurrency crises, none of the monthly indicators changes in relative performance by more than one position as the sample is enlarged, and for 10 of the ... tabulate for each of the monthly indicators the average number of months before the crisis when the first signal occurs This, of course, does not preclude the indicator from giving signals through the...
... statistics forthe ratings along the lines of the ‘‘signals’’ approach and compare how these stack up to the other leading indicators we have analyzed Second, we follow the approach taken in much of the ... similar results.3 The method of estimation corrected for These results are not reported here but are available from the authors RATING THE RATING AGENCIES AND THEMARKETS 47 Institute for International ... correcting for heteroskedasticity and serial correlation in the residuals Forthe Moody’s ratings, the dependent variable is threemonth changes in the rating, while the explanatory variable is the financial...
... relevant value of the index for a currency crisis The next column shows the country’s ordinal ranking forthe vulnerability index relative to the remaining 19 countries South Africa, the Czech Republic, ... 30.05 for banking crises and 33.23 forcurrency crisis This score is a simple sum of the inverse of the noise-to-signal ratios forthe good indicators that are retained However, it is seldom the ... and exports, and forcurrency crises, they are real exchange rates, stock prices, exports, M2/reserves, and output.) The next set of columns give the comparable information forthe eight annual...
... side of the table looks at currency crises, while the right side examines banking crises The performance of the composite indicator is compared with the performance of the real exchange rate the ... provides information on the performance of the leading indicators across regimes Recall that the closer the score in table 5.8 is to zero, the more accurate is the forecast The real exchange rate ... 1.620 forthe naive forecast of currency crises to 0.018 and 1.589 forthe real exchange rate forecast during tranquil and crisis times, respectively The composite indicator outperforms the real...
... three recent episodes of currency crises in emergingmarketsThe first of these episodes began with the devaluation of the Mexican peso in December 1994 On the heels of the Mexican devaluation, ... and the Philippines that are not a part of the Japanese bank cluster For them, the contagion from the Thai crisis via this channel is minimal By way of contrast, for countries that are in the ... tranquility as the periods that exclude the 24 months before and after currency crises In the case of banking crises, the 24 months before the banking crisis begins and the 36 months following it are...
... centered on the month of thecurrency crisis, and it combines the percentage decline in foreign exchange reserves in the six months before the crisis, since reserve losses typically occur before the ... capitulates, and the depreciation of thecurrency in the six months following the abandonment of the existing exchange rate arrangement This latter component captures the magnitude of thecurrency meltdown ... currency meltdown Table 7.5 presents these measures of severity forthe 76 currency crises and 26 banking crises in the Kaminsky-Reinhart sample Forthe 1970-94 sample, currency and banking crises were...
... defined as the relative price of foreign goods (in domestic currency) to the price of domestic goods If the central bank of the home country pegs thecurrency to the dollar (or deutsche mark), the relevant ... implications for macroeconomic and exchange rate policies; for others there is no obvious link For example, the performance of M2/reserves as an indicator of currency crises is suggestive of the desirability ... mark), the relevant foreign price index is that of the United States (or Germany) Hence for all the European countries the foreign price index is that of Germany, while for all the other countries...
... being the next largest, BRIC countries dominate the standings with only Mexico as the fourth largest destination ahead of Russia Since the onset of the financial crisis the spread on theemerging ... Finance forEmergingMarkets 2010 unlike Russia where a net outflow persisted Sources of foreign claims on emergingmarkets Consolidated BIS data for banks in 30 reporting countries show that foreign ... www.unctad.org Chart Source of foreign claims on emergingmarkets Foreign claims on emerging markets* , % share, September 2009 Other countries UK 19% Japan 5% Italy 5% Netherlands 16% 14% 5% 11% 6%...
... mechanisms Therefore, the results not reject the hypothesis H2b Nevertheless, even if this is the case, the effect of the improvement of corporate governance cannot be ignored The Cramer's V of the ... Research The FTSE Group (2010) distinguishes between advanced and secondary emergingmarkets on the basis of their national income and the development of their market infrastructure The advanced emerging ... investigate the differences before and after the strengthening of the corporate governance mechanism, the sample was divided into two periods in this study, using 2003 as the division point Formally, the...
... is the outlook for them? Is the labour market hot (is there a lot of poaching) or not? What is the outlook? How educated is the labour force? How unionised is the local labour force? What is the ... maintaining them is the most powerful business intelligence tool in emergingmarkets It is as 29 EMERGINGMARKETS important for companies entering the market forthe first time as it is for those ... come unexpectedly, despite the efforts of forecasters to predict the future Establish different performance criteria foremergingmarkets Managers operating in emergingmarkets need to be judged...
... which the participants find themselves They can affect the course of events the future is influenced by their decisions—but they cannot base their decisions on knowledge They are obliged to form ... that all the rivers in Siberia flow into the Arctic Sea They drifted for several weeks before they realized that they were heading to the Arctic, and it took them several months to make their way ... The New Paradigm for Financial Markets and applied the theory to the present moment in history With the passage of time, I overcame my reluctance to part with the concept of reflexivity, and the...
... sell the foreign firm‟s product(s) in themarkets agreed upon The agreement thus allows the incumbent to use the foreign firm‟s proprietary technology and/or knowledge The incumbent then pays the ... firms within the FMCG industry follow the theories on market entry in emergingmarkets That is, can the market entries of FMCG firms in emergingmarkets be explained through the theories presented ... mainly be analysing and using the supplier companies forthe FMCGs as we progress with the thesis EmergingmarketsThe term emerging market is commonly used about markets or economies that fit...
... stakeholders, the government called forthe formation of a high-level commission that would mediate conflicts emerging from the implementation of the Marlin project and propose changes to the mining law The ... less about the actual content of the information being disclosed than they about the principle of openness and transparency Give people the information they need to participate in an informed manner ... representatives The commission enabled the company to have a formal forum where they could interact with key stakeholders and helped defuse the tension surrounding the mining debate In August 2005, the commission...
... evaluate their performance The potential is real in these developing markets (the term developing markets includes emerging, frontier, and pre -emerging markets) A full 43 percent of the world’s ... of the simplest definitions of whether a market is emerging is whether it appears in a financial index that tracks emerging markets, such as the MSCI EmergingMarkets or the MSCI Frontier Markets ... demand forthe basic consumer products that people in developed countries take for granted For investors, the chance to get in on the ground floor of the economic transformation of about half of the...
... are aspiring for better products, and they want these today! However, the models and the trends for technology adoption in theemergingmarkets are not the same as in the developed markets This ... provides the background of theemergingmarkets since their economic transformation is the primary reason they are grouped together Design, which takes seriously the context of these emerging ... to see that these cross-cultural conflicts exist in all of theemergingmarkets and even more so between them The Common Characteristic of EmergingMarkets Although these emergingmarkets are...
... holds the security and performs the transfer of the title from the seller to the buyer Refer to Chapter for other possible settlement institutions Another comingling Clearing Services for Global Markets ... would be the best solution for capital markets in the EU They may be right Again, it is not our role to impose a particular model on the market The Commission’s role is to ensure themarkets work ... ‘this dimension of financial markets is fundamental forthe proper functioning of the whole It is, in fact, the very essence of the markets, because it constitutes the basic process of exchange...
... Chapter defines the two core issues of research: the efficiency of clearing and the structure of the clearing industry Forthe purpose of this study, the efficiency is measured by the transaction ... or, in the case of derivatives, another underlying There are two sides to every trade: the buy position and the sell position.5 Settlement refers to the fulfilment of the legal obligation In the ... that shape for a very long time.43 43 Tumpel-Gugerell (2006) 12 Clearing Services for Global Markets This section briefly outlines the rationale for choosing to focus the research on the exchange-traded...