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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Ente Autore: International Monetary Fund. Research Dept
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Serie:IMF Staff Papers; IMF Staff Papers ; No. 2000/001
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF