constructed gravity-based contagion index to assess the importance of these factors in the run-up to currency crises. Using a … risk of a crisis for EMEs. Third, contagion has a very strong impact, consistent with the past literature, especially …

This paper considers empirical tests for the contagion of financial crises that address the endogeneity of contagion by … using instrumental variable estimation techniques. Two complications in the application to contagion are that the regression … model is potentially incoherent and that it contains a parameter that is not identified under the null of no contagion …

on reinsurance exposures, we perform a scenario analysis to measure contagion risks. Based on current exposures, we find …

This paper investigates contagion of major financial institutions by focusing on extreme stock return co-movements. Our … measure of contagion within banking and insurance sectors is the number of coincidences of daily extreme returns that cannot … evidence of contagion for the US, Germany and the UK. This result is stronger for the insurance sector than for the banking …

We investigate interlinkages and contagion risks in the Dutch interbank market. Based on severaldata sources, including … a scenario analysis to measure contagion risks. We find that the bankruptcy of one of the large banks will put a … considerable burden on the other banks, but will not lead to a complete collapse of the interbank market. The contagion effects of …