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This paper presents a canonical, econometric model of contagion and investigates the conditions under which contagion … the solution is not unique, and for sufficiently large values of the contagion coefficients it has interesting bifurcation … contagion effects in the presence of inter-dependencies the equations for the individual markets or countries must contain …
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We analyse how reversals of several types of capital flows impact currency crises in emerging market and developing economies. Estimates of logit models show that reversals of (equity and debt) portfolio flows significantly increase the likelihood of currency crises in emerging market economies....
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This paper explores the behavior of emerging market mutual funds using anovel database covering the holdings of individual funds over the periodJanuary 1996 to March 1999. An examination of individual crises shows that,on average, funds withdrew money one month prior to the events. Thedegree of...
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We investigate the trade-off between the risk-sharing gains enjoyed by more interconnected firms and the costs resulting from an increased risk exposure. We find that when the shock distribution displays "fat" tails, extreme segmentation into small components is optimal, while minimal...
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This paper explores the link between monetary policies of large industrial countries and international credit cycles. Based on an overinvestment framework, we show that in the prevailing asymmetric world monetary system, monetary policies of large centre countries can fuel credit booms in...
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-border contagion effects could turn out to be important in the EU because national banking problems could easily spread via the highly … take cross-border contagion effects into account. Supervisors with such a national mandate fail to implement the optimum …
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Interbank claims are a concern to regulators as they might facilitate the dissemination of defaults and generate spill-over effects. Building on a simple model, this paper introduces a measure of the spill-over effects that a bank generates when it defaults. The measure is based on an explicit...
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time of the COVID-19 pandemic. We provide evidence in favour of energy contagion, in term of significantly higher …
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We put forward the novel concept of energy contagion, i.e. a deepening of energy-finance linkages under crisis periods …-skewness, and co-volatility contagion tests. Our analysis is applied to the oil-exchange rate and oil-stock market relationships of … the small petroleum economy of Trinidad and Tobago. By defining our samples for the contagion measures in terms of calm …
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labeled a contagion of fear. Using geocoded, microdata on bank distress, we develop metrics that illuminate the incidence of …
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