Systemic Risk Assessment in Low Income Countries : Balancing Financial Stability and Development

We propose a toolkit for the assessment of systemic risk buildup in low income countries. We show that, due tonon-linearity in the relationship between credit and financial stability, the assessment should be conducted withdifferent tools at different stages of financial development. In particular, when the level of financial depth is low,traditional leading indicators of banking crises have poor predictive performance and the analysis should be basedon indicators that account for financial deepening while taking into consideration countries' structural limits. Byusing this framework, we provide a preliminary assessment of systemic risk buildup in individual SSA countries.
Publication date: August 2015
ISBN: 9781513545882
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Economics- Macroeconomics , Economics / General , International - Economics , Early Warning Indicators , Financial Deepening , Systemic Risk , Sub-Saharan Africa

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