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This paper tests for the transmission of the 2007-2010 financial and sovereign debt crises to fifteen EMU countries. We use daily data from 2003 to 2010 on country financial and non-financial stock market indexes. First, we find strong evidence of crisis transmission to European non-financials...
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This paper empirically examines the impact of capital flows on credit growth, credit excesses and banking crises using quarterly panel data from 43 advanced (AEs) and emerging market economies (EMEs). Regressions show that gross capital inflows precede credit growth and credit excesses. Both...
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Simultaneous bank defaults are often attributed to interbank contagion, but can also be due to common shocks affecting …, we find no evidence for such an effect. This finding suggests that contagion risk has been overestimated, which has …
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At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, many soccer matches were played during stock market trading hours, providing us with a natural experiment to analyze fluctuations in investor attention. Using minute-by-minute trading data for fifteen international stock exchanges, we present three key...
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This paper investigates the level and development of cross-country stock market dependence using daily returns on stock indices. The use of copulas allows us to build exible models of the joint distribution of stock index returns. In particular, we apply univariate AR(p)-GARCH(1,1) models to the...
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Using an event study approach, we examine the impact of news about Greece and news about a Greek bailout on bank stock prices in 2010 using data for 48 banks included in the European stress tests. We identify the twenty days with extreme returns on Greek sovereign bonds and categorize the news...
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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 …
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We present a new method to examine financial contagion, defined as a sudden strengthening of shock transmission between …
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We investigate interlinkages and contagion risks in the Dutch interbank market. Based on severaldata sources, including … a scenario analysis to measure contagion risks. We find that the bankruptcy of one of the large banks will put a … considerable burden on the other banks, but will not lead to a complete collapse of the interbank market. The contagion effects of …
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When does the general public lose trust in banks? We provide empirical evidence using responses by Dutch survey participants to eight hypothetical scenarios. We find that members of the general public care strongly about executive compensation. Negative media reports, falling stock prices, and...
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