Over the last 20 years, some financial events, such as devaluations or defaults, have triggered an immediate adverse chain reaction in other countries -- which we call fast and furious contagion. Yet, on other occasions, similar events have failed to trigger any immediate international reaction....

We use consumer price data for 205 cities/regions in 21 countries to study PPP deviations before, during and after the major currency crises of the 1990s. We combine data from industrialized nations in North America (Unites States, Canada and Mexico), Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal),...

This paper investigates contagion effects. In a model with highly and lowly informed investors we show that a currency crisis in one country can trigger a crisis in another country. Portfolio losses of the highly informed investors in one country will force them to withdraw capital from the...

In dieser Arbeit wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie die Entstehung und Ausbreitung von Währungskrisen theoretisch zu erklären ist. Nach einem Überblick über die etablierten Erklärungsansätze zur Krisenentstehung werden schwerpunktmäßig zwei Thesen zur Krisenausbreitung untersucht. Erstens...