Gathering insights on the forest from the trees: a new metric for financial conditions

Scott Brave and R. Andrew Butters

No WP-2010-07, Working Paper Series from Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Abstract: By incorporating the Harvey accumulator into the large approximate dynamic factor framework of Doz et al. (2006), we are able to construct a coincident index of financial conditions from a large unbalanced panel of mixed frequency financial indicators. We relate our financial conditions index, or FCI, to the concept of a \"financial crisis\" using Markov-switching techniques. After demonstrating the ability of the index to capture \"crisis\" periods in U.S. financial history, we present several policy-geared threshold rules for the FCI using Receiver Operator Characteristics (ROC) curve analysis.

Keywords: Financial crises; Financial markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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