Discriminating Contagion : An Alternative Explanation of Contagious Currency Crises in Emerging Markets /

This paper shows that a country's vulnerability to contagious crises depends on the visible similarities between that country and other countries that are experiencing crises. A country is vulnerable to shifts in investor sentiment if it exhibits weaknesses in the same economic variables as oth...

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Main Author: Ahluwalia, Pavan
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/014
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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