What Drives Contagion : Trade Neighborhood, or Financial Links? /

This paper presents evidence on the relative importance of alternative contagion channels during the Thai, Russian, and Brazilian crises. Results show that when crises are measured by changes in sovereign bond spreads, financial competition seems to explain almost all contagion episodes. However, wh...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Valdes, Rodrigo
Other Authors: Hernandez, Leonardo
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/029
Online Access:Full text available on IMF