Die Arbeit untersucht, unter welchen Umständen das von makroökonomischen Fundamentalvariablen losgelöste und damit scheinbar irrationale Imitationsverhalten von Devisenmarktteilnehmern zu Zahlungsbilanzkrisen führen kann. In einem eigens entworfenen stochastischen Modell des Beharrungs- und...

According to the most common understanding, currency crises are always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Based on a formal theoretical model and ample empirical evidence, this article argues instead that currency crises are always and everywhere about external imbalances. They are usually...

Contagion is an extremely important topic in finance. Contagion is at the core of most major financial crises, in particular the 2008 financial crisis. Although various approaches to quantifying contagion have been proposed, many of them lack a causal interpretation. We will present a new...

The South East Asian crisis has started a debate on contagion. This paper aims at throwing some light on the same issue. We analyze the short-run and long-run dynamics between currency markets of six South East Asian economies using the Vector Auto Regression technique. The currency markets of...