distance, trade, and finance to the US subprime mortgage and Eurozone debt crisis areas. To understand the causes of the cross … primary contagion driver, rather than the trade channel. Given the substantial degree of financial contagion, I run a series … similarly severe contagion in the future, so long as there is not capital immobility to the degree that the local sovereign can …

This paper addresses the following questions. Is there evidence of financial contagion in the Eurozone? To what extent … matter concerning the Euro Zone. Second, differences in vulnerability to contagion within the Eurozone are even more … remarkable: the core Eurozone members become less vulnerable to EUZ contagion, possibly due to a safe-heaven effect, while …

This paper analyzes sovereign risk contagion in the Eurozone using an extension to the canonical model for contagion … contagion in typically bounded time intervals. Controlling for changes in the risk pricing by investors, we detect several … channels of pure contagion between 2008 and 2012. Further, we find that the bailout-programs for Greece, Ireland and Portugal …