This paper investigates which leading indicators signal banking crises in emerging economies by using a multivariate logit model. We find that the stability of banking sectors in emerging economies is at risk in an environment of rapid lending growth, high inflation and rising real interest...

This paper investigates whether credit booms are an important warning signal for banking crises in Asian and Latin American emerging market economies. Based on a signalling leading indicator model, the results suggest that credit booms are indeed a prelude for banking crises, especially in Latin...

This Study Guide compliments van Marrewijk: International Trade and the World Economy, reviewing and deepening the student's understanding of the topics covered in the main textbook. It provides a set of questions relating to every chapter and these are sub-divided into four different types of...