Crises, Contagion, and the Closed : End Country Fund Puzzle /

This paper analyzes the behavior of closed-end country fund discounts, including evidence from the Mexican and East Asian crises. We find that the ratio of fund prices to their fundamental value increases dramatically during a crisis, an anomaly that we denote the 'closed-end country fund puzzl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levy Yeyati, Eduardo
Other Authors: Ubide, Angel
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/143
Online Access:Full text available on IMF