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fiscal guarantees, respectively occurring in November 2009 and February/March 2010. We argue that the risk of contagion to …
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This study concentrates on the signal approach for Kazakhstan. It focuses on the properties of individual indicators prior to observed currency crises. The indicators are used to build composite indicators. An advanced approach uses principal components analysis for the construction of composite...
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This paper provides empirical evidence on two potential costs of shared ownership of German affiliates abroad. First, in periods of currency crises, wholly-owned affiliates, in contrast to partially-owned affiliates, seem to circumvent financial constraints by accessing capital from their parent...
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of last resort and other safety net issues. We devote particular emphasis to the analysis of systemic risk and contagion …
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This paper presents a canonical, econometric model of contagion and investigates the conditions under which contagion … the solution is not unique, and for sufficiently large values of the contagion coefficients it has interesting bifurcation … contagion effects in the presence of inter-dependencies the equations for the individual markets or countries must contain …
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Interbank claims are a concern to regulators as they might facilitate the dissemination of defaults and generate spill-over effects. Building on a simple model, this paper introduces a measure of the spill-over effects that a bank generates when it defaults. The measure is based on an explicit...
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This paper explores the behavior of emerging market mutual funds using anovel database covering the holdings of individual funds over the periodJanuary 1996 to March 1999. An examination of individual crises shows that,on average, funds withdrew money one month prior to the events. Thedegree of...
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transmission mechanism—contagion—during turbulences in mature markets. Tri-variate GARCH-BEKK models of returns in global (mature …
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Reforms often occur in waves, seemingly cascading from country to country. We argue that such reform waves may be driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of similar countries. We motivate this hypothesis with a simple...
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findings show that there is contagion within the Euro Area. Additionally, contagious effects generated by rating announcements …
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