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...

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Auteur principal: Valdes, Rodrigo
Autres auteurs: Hernandez, Leonardo
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/029
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF