Discriminating Contagion: An Alternative Explanation of Contagious Currency Crises in Emerging Markets
February 1, 2000
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Summary
This paper shows that a country’s vulnerability to contagious crises depends on the visible similarities between that country and other countries that are experiencing crises. A country is vulnerable to shifts in investor sentiment if it exhibits weaknesses in the same economic variables as other countries affected by a contagious crisis (particularly the country that started the contagious wave), or if it is located in the same region. The paper uses a sample of 19 emerging markets, and data from the Mexican, Asian, and Russian crises to provide evidence of this discriminating contagion, after controlling for alternative channels of contagion such as trade spillovers and financial linkages.
Subject: Currencies, Currency crises, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Financial crises, Financial markets, Foreign exchange, Money, Real exchange rates
Keywords: Africa, balance-of-payments, Contagion, contagion indicator variable, contagion variable, Currencies, Currency crises, currency crisis, current account, discriminating contagion effect, East Asia, Emerging and frontier financial markets, exchange rate, income effect, macroeconomic variable, Real exchange rates, speculative, variable CT, WP
Pages:
38
Volume:
2000
DOI:
Issue:
014
Series:
Working Paper No. 2000/014
Stock No:
WPIEA0142000
ISBN:
9781451843118
ISSN:
1018-5941
