debt crisis. It shows that a deterioration in countries’ fundamentals and fundamentals contagion – a sharp rise in the … spreads during the crisis, not only for euro area countries but globally. By contrast, regional spillovers and contagion have … been less important, including for euro area countries. The paper also finds evidence for herding contagion – sharp …

stock market. We conduct our analysis by explicitly considering the distinction between interdependence and contagion. By … equilibrium for US shares? Is there short-term interdependence and contagion between US and European stock markets, i.e. do short …

This Paper develops a test of contagion in financial markets based on bivariate correlation analysis, which generalizes … existing tests, and applies it to the international effects of the Hong Kong stock market crisis of October 1997. Contagion is … country-specific shocks in Hong Kong, our test finds evidence of contagion for 5 countries out of a sample of 17. This is in …