payment system designs. We assess the exposures and the contagion by a counterfactual analysis assuming that payments …

related payment and settlement systems. At the heart of systemic risk are contagion effects, various forms of external effects … rigorous models of bank and payment system contagion have now been developed, although a general theoretical paradigm is still … missing. Direct econometric tests of bank contagion effects seem to be mainly limited to the United States. Empirical studies …

This paper analyses cross-border contagion in a sample of European banks from January 1994 to January 2003. We use a … bank. We find evidence in favour of significant cross-border contagion. We also find some evidence that since the … introduction of the euro cross-border contagion may have increased. The results seem to be very robust to changes in the …

contagion among large EU banks. Banks’ risk is measured by the first difference of weekly distances to default and abnormal …. Further, the paper proposes a simple metric, which is used to identify contagion from one bank to another and identify …

transmission from or to sovereigns and banks are aggregated as a Contagion index (CI). This index is disentangled into four …) vice-versa. We highlight the impact of policy-related events along the different components of the contagion index. The …

This paper provides an empirical assessment of interdependence and contagion across three asset classes (bonds, stocks …. For emerging economies, these within-market effects mostly apply to the equity market. Contagion effects within-market are … most notable in Latin America and Emerging Asia for equities. Cross-market contagion is identified from global bonds to …

debt crisis. It shows that a deterioration in countries’ fundamentals and fundamentals contagion – a sharp rise in the … spreads during the crisis, not only for euro area countries but globally. By contrast, regional spill overs and contagion have … been less important, including for euro area countries. The paper also finds evidence for herding contagion – sharp …

2008 contagion primarily went from banks to sovereigns, the direction reversed in 2011-12 in the course of the sovereign …