International Contagion Effects from the Russian Crisis and the LTCM Near-Collapse /

We examine empirically the episode of extraordinary turbulence in global financial markets during 1998. The analysis focuses on the market assessment of credit risk captured by daily movements in bond spreads for twelve countries. A dynamic latent factor model is estimated using indirect inference t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fry, Renee
Other Authors: Dungey, Mardi, Gonzalez-Hermosillo, Brenda, Martin, Vance
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/074
Online Access:Full text available on IMF