Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/278484 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 2808
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Financial stability indicators can be grouped into financial stress indicators that reflect heightened spreads and market volatility, and financial vulnerability indicators that reflect credit and asset price imbalances. Based on a panel of euro area countries, we show that both types of indicators contain information about downside risks to real GDP growth (growth-at-risk) in the short-term (1-year ahead). However, only vulnerability indicators contain information about growth-at-risk in the medium-term (3-years ahead and beyond). Among various vulnerability indicators suggested in the literature, the Systemic Risk Indicator (SRI) proposed by Lang et al. (2019) outperforms in terms of in-sample explanatory power and out-of-sample predictive ability for medium-term growth-at-risk in euro area countries. Shocks to the SRI induce a rich "term structure" for growth-at-risk: downside risks to real GDP growth are reduced in the short-term, but over the medium-term the effect reverses and downside risks to real GDP growth go up considerably. We also show that using cross-country information from the panel of euro area countries can improve the out-of-sample forecasting performance of growth-at-risk for the euro area aggregate.
Subjects: 
Growth-at-risk
financial stress
financial vulnerabilities
quantile regression
local projections
JEL: 
E37
E44
G01
G17
C22
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-899-6071-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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