This paper assesses financial integration in Asia in terms of risk-sharing benefit versus financial-contagion cost. We … discount factors. Risk sharing is low in Asia, and varies across time and countries, whereas contagion risks are more … contagion, but the terms of tradeoffs vary across countries, depending on relative economic fluctuations and inflation …

14 developing and industrial countries. The results show that contagion was systemic during the period, with industrial … importance of studying them jointly. An implication of the empirical results is that models of contagion that exclude industrial …

This paper presents evidence on the relative importance of alternative contagion channels during the Thai, Russian, and … to explain almost all contagion episodes. However, when crises are measured by stock market returns, trade links and … neighborhood effects appear to be relevant contagion channels during the Thai and Brazilian crises, while financial competition …

This paper proposes a stochastic volatility model to measure sovereign financial distress. It examines how key European … sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads affect each other; specifically, the paper analyses the volatility structure of … explaining each other’s volatility while Germany also plays an important role. It is found that extreme bad news led to …

might well require a further gradual tightening of monetary policy. Increased contestability and integration in the …