Fatal Attraction : A New Measure of Contagion /

This paper proposes a new measure of contagion that is good at anticipating future vulnerabilities. Building on previous work, it uses correlations of equity markets across countries to measure contagion, but in a departure from previous practice it measures contagion using the relationship of these...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bayoumi, Tamim
Other Authors: Fazio, Giorgio, Kumar, Manmohan, MacDonald, Ronald
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/080
Online Access:Full text available on IMF