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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Korporativna značnica: International Monetary Fund
Format: Revija
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/146
Online dostop:Full text available on IMF