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currency crisis even in another unrelated country without capital linkage. Although the presence of contagion itself is not new …, it does not necessarily mean that it will never suffer contagion from some other country with better economic …
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currency crisis. The model proposes a new contagion channel and shows how a currency crisis can spread from one country to … distinguish between whether a crisis is a coincidence or due to contagion when it happens in two countries. It finds that the … better the economic fundamentals in the originating crisis country, the more severe the contagion under certain conditions …
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This paper proposes a model encompassing alternative views of contagion by highlighting the different channels of … channel of contagion. The possible stabilization effects of capital controls and Tobin tax on the international transmission …
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Since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, the choice of the exchange rate regime has been the subject of a lively debate in international finance. In this study, we investigate the determinants of three exchange rate regimes (fixed, flexible and intermediate). Our...
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A common feature of numerous studies on early warning systems (EWS) of currency crisis is the use of an index of exchange market pressure, defined as a weighted average of the rate of depreciation, the monthly percentage changes in international reserves, and sometimes the inclusion of the...
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We propose a semi-parametric approach to investigate whether co-dependence across markets increase in periods of extreme returns. Given that returns on one market fall in the extreme tail of their own distribution, we compute the conditional probability that returns on another market will also...
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processes are independent, providing a theoretical argument in favor of financial markets contagion. The foreign exchange market …
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This paper develops concordance indices for studying the simultaneous occurrence of financial crises across markets and/or countries. The typically low incidence of financial crises necessitates a change in the definition of concordance from those recently developed for the business cycle...
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The existing literature promotes a number of alternative methods to test for the presence of contagion during financial …
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We examine Granger causality among the exchange rates of eight East Asian economies prior to the Asian crisis. We adopt as our general model Engle and Gau’s (1997) “official band†model, and use daily bilateral US dollar exchange rate data during January 1991-July 1997. Our...
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