IMF Staff Papers, Volume 47, No. 2.

This paper analyzes portfolio diversification, leverage, and financial contagion. It studies the extent to which basic principles of portfolio diversification explain 'contagious selling' of financial assets when there are purely local shocks. The paper demonstrates that the elementary por...

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Collectivité auteur: International Monetary Fund. Research Dept
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Collection:IMF Staff Papers; IMF Staff Papers ; No. 2000/001
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF