The Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure: A useful tool for predicting sovereign crises?

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP). It explores the relationship between sovereign bond yields spreads and the variables contained in the MIP scoreboard using quantile regressions. Results suggest that MIP indicators can explain the behavior of sovereign spreads two, three and four quarters in advance. The scoreboard can’t capture strong non-variant country effects that affect the evolution of spreads as well as the different impact that each indicator has on different countries. The introduction of employment indicators has reduced the aggregate effect that country effects have on sovereign spreads

El Procedimiento de Desequilibrios Macroeconómicos: ¿Una herramienta útil para predecir crisis soberanas?

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP). It explores the relationship between sovereign bond yields spreads and the variables contained in the MIP scoreboard using quantile regressions. Results suggest that MIP indicators can explain the behavior of sovereign spreads two, three and four quarters in advance. The scoreboard can’t capture strong non-variant country effects that affect the evolution of spreads as well as the different impact that each indicator has on different countries. The introduction of employment indicators has reduced the aggregate effect that country effects have on sovereign spreads.Este artículo realiza un análisis empírico del Procedimiento de Desequilibrios Macroeconómicos (PDM). Explora la relación entre los diferenciales de deuda soberana y las variables incluidas en el PDM utilizando regresiones por cuantiles. Los resultados sugieren que los indicadores del PDM pueden explicar el comportamiento de los diferenciales soberanos dos, tres y cuatro trimestres por adelantado. No pueden, sin embargo, capturar el efecto que los indicadores invariantes de país tienen respecto de la evolución de los diferenciales, así como el impacto específico que cada indicador tiene en cada país. La introducción de indicadores de empleo ha reducido el efecto agregado que las variables de país tienen en los diferenciales soberanos