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OPEN ECONOMIES REVIEW
Volume 17, Issue 4-5, Pages 423-441Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11079-006-0357-7
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contagion; currency crises; spatial modelling
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This paper takes a spatial modelling approach in specifying and testing for contagion among emerging market economies. Our approach enables us to estimate asymmetries such as the magnitude of contagion of one country upon others, as well as how that country in turn is affected, on average, by the events of others. The approach also enables us to test for contagion in a formal, straightforward way and to take account for distance and trade linkages among countries. The results suggest that contagion is a statistically significant factor in foreign exchange markets and, furthermore, its effects are not uniform across the countries considered.
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