The rapid advances in financial technology in the past decade have led to a commensurate increase in sophistication for modelling techniques needed by the researchers for the understanding of financial markets. The book aims at equipping graduate students, market analysts and others with a wide...

Preface -- The background : channels of contagion in the us financial crisis1 -- Methodology -- The data -- Estimates of single-state var models -- Results from markov switching models -- Estimating and disentangling the contagion channels -- Comparing the us and european contagion experiences...