Sources of Contagion : Finance or Trade?

This paper presents evidence that spillovers through bank lending, as opposed to trade linkages and country characteristics, can help explain contagion. We construct a measure of competition for bank funds and find evidence in favor of a common lender effect in the Mexican, Thai, and Russian crises,...

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مؤلف مشترك: International Monetary Fund
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/146
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF