Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/212997 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
BoF Economics Review No. 4/2019
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Helsinki
Abstract: 
Indicators based on the ratio of credit to GDP have been found to be highly useful predictors of banking crises. We study the difference in this ratio as an early warning indicator. We test a large number of different versions of the differenced credit-to-GDP ratio with data on Euro area members. The optimal time interval of the difference is about two years. Using the moving average of GDP instead of the latest annual data has little impact on forecasting performance. The indicator is a particularly promising choice at relatively short forecasting horizons, such as two or three years.
Subjects: 
banking crises
early warning indicators
differenced relative credit
credit intensity
countercyclical capital buffer
JEL: 
G01
G17
G28
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Research Report

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