Financial Market Contagion in the Asian Crisis /

This paper tests for evidence of contagion between the financial markets of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines. Cross-country correlations among currencies and sovereign spreads are found to increase significantly during the crisis period, whereas the equity market correlation...

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Yazar: Baig, Taimur
Diğer Yazarlar: Goldfajn, Ilan
Materyal Türü: Dergi
Dil:English
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Seri Bilgileri:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/155
Online Erişim:Full text available on IMF
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