analysis suggests that the risk of contagion is not reduced, while a more diversified portfolio of cross-border exposures might …

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 …

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 …

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 …

increase a sector's vulnerability to shocks and contagion …