Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/112964 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2015: Ökonomische Entwicklung - Theorie und Politik - Session: Sovereign risk revisited: construction and use of early-warning systems No. A06-V3
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Abstract: 
In past years, the most common approaches for deriving early-warning models belong to the family of binary-choice methods, which have been coupled with a separate loss function to optimize model signals based on policymakers preferences. The evidence in this paper shows that early-warning models should not be used in this traditional way, as the optimization of thresholds produces an in-sample overfit at the expense of out-of-sample performance. Instead of ex-post threshold optimization based upon a loss function, policymakers' preferences should rather be directly included as weights in the estimation function. Doing this strongly improves the out-of-sample performance of early-warning systems.
JEL: 
C35
C53
G01
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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