Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
tests for contagion (i.e., an intensification in the transmission of shocks across countries), fragmentation (a reduction in … European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) announcement of its Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) program in 2012. At the same time …, Italy and Spain became more interdependent after the OMT announcement, providing our only evidence of contagion. While this …