This paper examines financial contagion, that is, whether the cross-market linkages in financial markets increases after a shock to a country. We introduce the use of a new measure of local dependence (introduced by Hufthammer and Tjøstheim (2009)) to study the contagion effect. The central...

We consider possible measures of dependence for two symmetric alpha-stable (SαS) random variables. Some results are given which enlighten a few deficiencies of these measures. We propose a new measure which partially solve these problems. The results are illustrated by simulations