Financial Contagion and Investor "Learning" : An Empirical Investigation /

There have been several episodes of financial market "contagion" in the 1990s. Is contagion driven by herd behavior? Does it reflect fundamental economic linkages between countries? Or are episodes of contagion driven by investor learning and risk reassessment about a select group of count...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Basu, Ritu
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/218
Online Access:Full text available on IMF