The Global Financial Crisis and currency crises in Latin America

Tjeerd Boonman, Jan Jacobs and Gerard Kuper

No 12005-EEF, Research Report from University of Groningen, Research Institute SOM (Systems, Organisations and Management)

Abstract: The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has aected many regions including Latin America. This paper focuses on currency crises in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. We estimate an Early Warning System, consisting of a dynamic factor model and an ordered logit model, with monthly data for 1990-2007. Ex ante forecasts for 2008-2009 do not produce currency crises in the fall of 2008, in sharp contrast with reality. Our model only predicts an increased probability of a currency crisis for Argentina in 2009.

Date: 2012
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