Corsetti, Giancarlo; Pericoli, Marcello; Sbracia, Massimo - 2001
This paper builds a general test of contagion in financial markets based on bivariate correlation analysis - a test … that can be interpreted as an extension of the normal correlation theorem. Contagion is defined as a structural break in … contributions in the literature as special cases of our test. We show that, while the literature on correlation analysis of …
