一、题目

An Early Warning Model for Financial Stress Events

二、主讲人

Fuchun Li Financial Stability Department, Bank of Canada

三、时间

2014年6月30日（周一）下午3:00

四、地点

邵逸夫科学馆401

五、摘要

The objective of this paper is to propose an early warning system that can predict the likelihood of occurrence of financial stress events within a given period of time. To achieve this goal, the signal extraction approach proposed by Kaminsky, Lizondo and Reinhart (1998) is used to monitor the evolution of a number of economic indicators that tend to exhibit an unusual behavior in the periods preceding a financial stress event. Based on the individual indicators, we propose three different composite indicators, the summed composite indicator, the extreme composite indicator, and the weighted composite indicator. In-sample forecasting results indicate that the three composite indicators are useful tools for predicting financial stress events. The out-of-sample forecasting results suggest that for the most countries including Canada, the weighted composite indicator performs better than the two others across all criteria considered.