Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1269:
From Transition Crises to Macroeconomic Stability? Lessons from a Crises Early Warning System for Eastern European and CIS Countries
Kristina Kittelmann, Marcel Tirpak, Rainer Schweickert and Lúcio Vinhas de Souza
Abstract: This paper uses a Markov regime-switching model to assess
the vulnerability of a series of Central and Eastern European countries
(i.e. Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic) and two CIS countries
(i.e., Russia and Ukraine) during the period 1993–2004. For the new EU
member states in Central and Eastern Europe, the results of our model show
that the majority of crises in those countries can be explained by
inconsistencies in the domestic policy mix and by the deterioration of
macroeconomic fundamentals, as emphasized by first generation crises
models, while for the CIS countries analysed, financial vulnerability type
indicators were the most relevant, i.e., indicators connected with the
second and third generation of crisis model better explain the
vulnerability of these countries. Additionally, the set of indicators
choosen by our model is rather heterogenous, supporting the superiority of
a country-by-country approach.
Keywords: EU, Central and Eastern Europe, CIS, early warning system, currency crisis, Markov switching; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F47,; P20,; C22; (follow links to similar papers)
21 pages, February 2006
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