This paper evaluates three models for predicting currency crises that were proposed before 1997. The idea is to answer the question: if we had been using these models in late 1996, how well armed would we have been to predict the Asian crisis? The results are mixed but somewhat encouraging. One...

Note: Below is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract. This paper studies whether exchange rate expectations and overvaluations are predictors of currency crises using survey data for 26 countries in the last 13 years. The results suggest that overvaluation has predictive power...

This paper studies whether exchange rate expectations and overvaluations are predictors of currency crises. The results suggest that overvaluation has predictive power in explaining crises. However, although expected depreciation obtained from survey data partially takes different exchange rate...