This paper develops a quantitative model of contagion of financial crisis and sovereign default for small open … explanation of the contagion of financial crises. The model shows that whenever a country suffers a domestic shock that forces it …, producing a contagion of the crisis in those countries whose fundamentals are not solid enough. Also, even when the crisis in a …

This paper analyzes sovereign risk shift-contagion, i.e. positive and significant changes in the propagation mechanisms … propagation of shocks in euro's bond yield spreads shows almost no presence of shift-contagion. All the increases in correlation …

This paper addresses the following questions. Is there evidence of financial contagion in the Eurozone? To what extent … a country's vulnerability to contagion depends on "fundamentals" as opposed the government's "credibility"? We look at … matter concerning the Euro Zone. Second, differences in vulnerability to contagion within the Eurozone are even more …