earnings either in that same year or within the past two years. We also find evidence of earning management contagion at the … past two years. Furthermore, we find that earnings management contagion is stronger when it’s the shared director has a … also a director at another firm is associated with stronger contagion relative to other board positions of shared directors …

In this thesis different definitions of financial contagion are explored. These definitions are applied to test for … evidence of contagion on a number of stock markets and during several turbulent periods. First, we investigate the question … calm market and emerging crisis markets. Additionally, we explore the direction of spillovers and contagion effects between …

contagion risk in the accumulation process, and the outlook of regional arrangements of cooperation, such as regional reserve …

This dissertation describes different conceptions of economic crises and different conceptions of contagion effects …. There is a survey of theoretical and empirical studies concerning contagion effects on financial markets. A theoretical … model describes a single contagion mechanism caused by information updating by investors. There is further an investigation …