Are Financial Crises Alike? /

This paper investigates whether financial crises are alike by considering whether a single modeling framework can fit multiple distinct crises in which contagion effects link markets across national borders and asset classes. The crises considered are Russia and LTCM in the second half of 1998, Braz...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tang, Chrismin
Other Authors: Dungey, Mardi, Gonzalez-Hermosillo, Brenda, Martin, Vance
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/014
Online Access:Full text available on IMF