%0 Journal Article %T Early Warning Indicators for Latin America %A Tenjo %A Fernando %A L¨®pez %A Martha %J Ensayos sobre POL¨ªTICA ECON¨®MICA %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X we explore the performance of a set of early warning indicators for a group of latin american economies under the endogenous cycle perspective. for this group of countries, the paper confirms the results of previous work on industrialized countries, which indicate that a combination of asset prices and credit provides valuable information of probable future financial crises. however, we go a step further in the analysis of emerging economies and find that a combination of capital flows from abroad and credit is an even superior leading indicator of such events. %K financial (in)stability %K early warning indicators %K financial accelerator. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-44832010000300007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en