explained by wake-up-call contagion. Evidence on pure contagion however is very mixed and there are no insights into the … dynamics of these effects. As a contribution to fill this gap, we apply the canonical contagion framework of Pesaran and Pick … [2007], similar to Metiu [2012], for daily data from January 2002 until May 2013. By adapting the contagion function used by …

this crisis. During the Irish financial crisis from 2007 to 2010, strong contagion effects are uncovered between Irish … equity markets and the investigated European equity markets. The contagion effects are found to ease dramatically in the … intervention as a mechanism to mitigate and absorb contagion associated with state-specific financial crises and if possible …

crisis started in October 2009. We perform a bivariate test for contagion that is based on an approach proposed by Forbes and … and industrialized countries. Our results indicate that there were periods of contagion for CDS markets during the Greek … crash and their conclusion of no contagion, only interdependence. Especially for European countries we would instead …

the Lehman Brothers in September 2008. We also test for the existence of contagion, and find no significant evidence of … contagion between equity markets in the US and the EMEAP region. On the other hand, intra-regional contagion is found to be more …