Saturday, February 5, 2011

Understanding and quantifying contagion

"Fear of contagion across asset classes is again stalking European sovereign bond markets. This column discusses how shocks to bank stocks spread to non-financial stocks in 2007 and 2008. It finds that equity fire sales by mutual funds had a surprisingly large and devastating effect on the price of non-financial stocks. Could the sale of bonds trigger a similar reaction?..."

at http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6081

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