This paper interprets contagion effects as an increase in the volatility of aggregate shocks impinging on the domestic … banks borrow at a premium on world capital markets, and domestic producers (whose demand for credit results from working … capital needs) borrow at a premium from domestic banks. Higher volatility of producers’ productivity shocks increases both …

The primary purpose of the study is to identify and measure the properties of asset bubbles, volatility clustering, and … empirical methods; the LPPL model to identify asset bubbles, the DCC-GARCH model to measure volatility clustering, and the … Diebold-Yilmaz volatility spillover index to measure the level of financial contagion. We provide robust evidence that during …

-movement increases in periods of financial distress. I also analyze the transmission of volatility between the two markets. The results … do not support the hypothesis that volatility propagation surges during financial distress periods. On the contrary, for … some cases, the data suggests that the lead-lag relationships between the two markets volatility are stronger during stable …

This paper proposes Spillover Persistence as a measure for financial fragility. The volatility paradox predicts that … fragility builds up when volatility is low, which challenges existing measures. Spillover Persistence tackles this challenge by …. Variation in financial constraints connects Spillover Persistence to fragility. The results are consistent with the volatility …