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A Leading Indicators Approach to the Predictability of Currency

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  • Bengi Kibritcioglu

    (Undersecretariat of Treasury, Turkey)

  • Bulent Kose

    (Undersecretariat of Treasury, Turkey)

  • Gamze Ugur

    (Undersecretariat of Treasury, Turkey)

Abstract

In this paper, we present a leading economic indicators approach to the predictability of currency crises in Turkey. After summarizing main theoretical models of currency crises and discussing the possible origins of financial crises in the European ERM countries (1992-93), Turkey (1994) and Southeast Asian countries (1997-98), we survey the empirical literature on the predictability of currency crises. Our leading economic indicators approach based on Burns and Mitchell (1946) shows that terms-of-trade, market-determined exchange rate over official exchange rate and some survey data can be considered as leading economic indicators of currency crises in Turkey.

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  • Bengi Kibritcioglu & Bulent Kose & Gamze Ugur, 2001. "A Leading Indicators Approach to the Predictability of Currency," International Finance 0108001, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 06 Sep 2001.
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    Keywords

    Leading economic indicators; predictability of currency crises; Turkey;
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    • F31 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Exchange
    • E60 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - General
    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes

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