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Early-Warning Alert Systems For Financial-Instability Detection: An Hmm-Driven Approach, Xing Gu
Early-Warning Alert Systems For Financial-Instability Detection: An Hmm-Driven Approach, Xing Gu
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Regulators’ early intervention is crucial when the financial system is experiencing difficulties. Financial stability must be preserved to avert banks’ bailouts, which hugely drain government's financial resources. Detecting in advance periods of financial crisis entails the development and customisation of accurate and robust quantitative techniques. The goal of this thesis is to construct automated systems via the interplay of various mathematical and statistical methodologies to signal financial instability episodes in the near-term horizon. These signal alerts could provide regulatory bodies with the capacity to initiate appropriate response that will thwart or at least minimise the occurrence of a financial crisis. …