In this paper, the direction-of-dependence concept was introduced for analyzing asymmetric properties of stock markets. The simulation results indicated that US major stock markets had the leading of the world stock market before 2008. The situation changed after 2008 where the leading role was...

Existing models of contagious currency crises are summarized and surveyed, and it is argued that more weight should be put on political factors. Towards this end, the concept of political contagion introduced, whereby contagion in speculative attacks across currencies arises solely because of...

Existing models of contagious currency crises are summarized and surveyed, and it is argued that more weight should be put on political factors. Towards this end, the concept of political contagion introduced, whereby contagion in speculative attacks across currencies arises solely because of...

In dieser Arbeit wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie die Entstehung und Ausbreitung von Währungskrisen theoretisch zu erklären ist. Nach einem Überblick über die etablierten Erklärungsansätze zur Krisenentstehung werden schwerpunktmäßig zwei Thesen zur Krisenausbreitung untersucht. Erstens...