Pre-registration
Country-years with both a high BIS credit gap and high household debt-service burden are followed by larger unemployment increases.
Falsification criterion — what would disprove this
This hypothesis is considered falsified if:
Supported only if the coefficient on credit_gap_x_high_dsr and the raw treated-control contrast clear the predeclared direction and magnitude gates.
formal test & threshold
test: bis_credit_gap_dsr_joint_crisis_risk_panel_1999_2025
threshold: {"coef_min": 0.4, "mean_diff_min": 0.4, "min_countries": 15, "min_observations": 450, "p_max": 0.1}Method
- Template
panel_fe- Fixed effects
country, year- Clustering
country- Sample
- 42 countries · 1964 – 2026
- Evidence type
- associational
Compact panel screen with country and calendar-year fixed effects. Standard errors clustered by country.
Data
| Variable | Source | Transform |
|---|---|---|
fwd_unemployment_change_2y outcome | constructed:forward outcome from WDI or BIS local vintagetier 5 | forward_change_or_forward_average |
credit_gap_x_high_dsr treatment | bis:WS_CREDIT_GAPtier 2 bis:WS_DSRtier 2 bis:WS_EERtier 2 bis:WS_SPPtier 2 | threshold_or_interaction_predeclared_in_runner |
household_dsr control | world_bank_wdi or BIS local vintage | level |
unemployment_rate control | world_bank_wdi or BIS local vintage | level |
● ready · ● pending · ● reconstruct-needed
Detailed result card
Result card — bis_credit_gap_dsr_joint_crisis_risk_panel_1999_2025
Verdict: INCONCLUSIVE_DATA_PENDING — no outcome variable loaded; missing: ['constructed: forward outcome from WDI or BIS local vintage']
Pre-registration
- Claim: Country-years with both a high BIS credit gap and high household debt-service burden are followed by larger unemployment increases.
- Falsification rule: Supported only if the coefficient on credit_gap_x_high_dsr and the raw treated-control contrast clear the predeclared direction and magnitude gates.
- Falsification test: bis_credit_gap_dsr_joint_crisis_risk_panel_1999_2025
Estimate
- Error: no outcome variable loaded; missing: ['constructed: forward outcome from WDI or BIS local vintage']
Variables resolved
bis:WS_CREDIT_GAP; bis:WS_DSR; bis:WS_EER; bis:WS_SPP→ credit_gap_x_high_dsr (treatment, publisher=bis, n=1914)
Variables missing data
constructed: forward outcome from WDI or BIS local vintage(outcome, name=fwd_unemployment_change_2y) — vintage not on diskworld_bank_wdi or BIS local vintage(controls, name=household_dsr) — vintage not on diskworld_bank_wdi or BIS local vintage(controls, name=unemployment_rate) — vintage not on disk
Generated by scripts/run_panel_fe.py at 2026-06-29T17:54:09+00:00
Strongest opposing argument
Every hypothesis ships with its charitable opposing argument. The framework earns credibility by handling objections at their strongest, not weakest.
Notes
Generated and runnable via engine/runs/bis_credit_gap_dsr_joint_crisis_risk_panel_1999_2025/replication.py from local BIS/WDI vintages.