We evaluate the effects of contagion and common exposure on banks' capital through a regression design inspired by the … structural VAR literature and derived from the balance sheet identity. Contagion can occur through direct exposures, fire sales … on granular balance sheet and interbank exposure data of the Canadian banking market. First, we document that contagion …

contagion among large EU banks. Banks’ risk is measured by the first difference of weekly distances to default and abnormal …. Further, the paper proposes a simple metric, which is used to identify contagion from one bank to another and identify …

This paper analyses cross-border contagion in a sample of European banks from January 1994 to January 2003. We use a … bank. We find evidence in favour of significant cross-border contagion. We also find some evidence that since the … introduction of the euro cross-border contagion may have increased. The results seem to be very robust to changes in the …

unexplained increases in factor loadings as indicative of contagion. We find evidence of systematic contagion from US markets and … contagion from domestic equity markets to individual domestic equity portfolios, with its severity inversely related to the …

This paper provides an empirical assessment of interdependence and contagion across three asset classes (bonds, stocks …. For emerging economies, these within-market effects mostly apply to the equity market. Contagion effects within-market are … most notable in Latin America and Emerging Asia for equities. Cross-market contagion is identified from global bonds to …

-out netting considerably reduces the extent to which contagion may occur. …

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 spill overs and contagion have … been less important, including for euro area countries. The paper also finds evidence for herding contagion – sharp …