This paper develops a methodology for detecting and measuring contagion using high frequency data which disentangles continuous and discontinuous price movements. We demonstrate its finite sample properties using Monte-Carlo simulation, focusing on the empirically plausible parameter space....

We analyse the stability of the cross-market shock transmission mechanism between banks and sovereign bonds during the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis for crisis-hit periphery countries and Germany. We also examine the shock propagation of banking shocks and sovereign bond shocks between domestic...