This paper analyzes the role of contagion in the currency crises in emerging markets during the 1990s. It employs a non …: contagion, weak economic fundamentals, and sunspots, i.e. unobservable shifts in agents’ beliefs. Testing this model empirically … through Markov-switching and panel data models reveals that contagion--a high degree of real integration and financial …

indicative of contagion. While we find evidence of contagion from the U.S. and the global financial sector, the effects are small …. By contrast, there has been substantial contagion from domestic markets to individual domestic portfolios, with its …

unexplained increases in factor loadings as indicative of contagion. We find evidence of systematic contagion from US markets and … contagion from domestic equity markets to individual domestic equity portfolios, with its severity inversely related to 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 …

tests for contagion (i.e., an intensification in the transmission of shocks across countries), fragmentation (a reduction in …, Italy and Spain became more interdependent after the OMT announcement, providing our only evidence of contagion. While this …

tests for contagion (i.e., an intensification in the transmission of shocks across countries), fragmentation (a reduction in …, Italy and Spain became more interdependent after the OMT announcement, providing our only evidence of contagion. While this …

indicative of contagion. While we find evidence of contagion from the U.S. and the global financial sector, the effects are small …. By contrast, there has been substantial contagion from domestic markets to individual domestic portfolios, with its …