constructed gravity-based contagion index to assess the importance of these factors in the run-up to currency crises. Using a … risk of a crisis for EMEs. Third, contagion has a very strong impact, consistent with the past literature, especially …

depositors know that there are economic linkages between banks. The contagion of withdrawals is by a change in beliefs about bank …

We present a new method to examine financial contagion, defined as a sudden strengthening of shock transmission between …

currency crises. We address three interrelated questions: (i) How can we best capture contagion; (ii) Is the contagion of … measure, we test for contagion and conclude that contagion only exists regionally. Furthermore, we construct a â …€œcross-market rebalancing variable based on the regional CPJF. By employing a probit model to compare our new variable with a regular contagion …

This paper considers empirical tests for the contagion of financial crises that address the endogeneity of contagion by … using instrumental variable estimation techniques. Two complications in the application to contagion are that the regression … model is potentially incoherent and that it contains a parameter that is not identified under the null of no contagion …