In this paper, a crisis index for the oil price shock is defined and a neural network model is specified for the prediction of the crisis index. This paper contributes to the literature in three ways. First, we build an early warning system for crude oil price. Although the oil price became one...

This study efforts to construct an effective early warning system (EWS) to predict sovereign crises for China and distinguish different levels of leading determinants, such as macro-economic fundamentals and risk transmission factors, impact significance in signaling the volatility quantified...