test for contagion by applying the multivariate structural break test of Qu and Perron (2007) on this FAVAR detecting … Belgium, Italy and Spain being key markets during the financial crisis. Contagion has been a rather rare phenomenon limited to … frequent surges in market co-movement are driven by larger shocks rather than by contagion. …

This paper examines the impact of financial contagion resulting from global financial crises based on analyses of the …

existence of financial contagion during this crisis, defined as the international transmission of country-specific shocks beyond … the normal channels of financial interdependence. Since contagion relates purely to country-specific shocks, we combine … the standard contagion test of Favero and Giavazzi (2002) with a narrative approach to separate out global and euro area …

this crisis. During the Irish financial crisis from 2007 to 2010, strong contagion effects are uncovered between Irish … equity markets and the investigated European equity markets. The contagion effects are found to ease dramatically in the … intervention as a mechanism to mitigate and absorb contagion associated with state-specific financial crises and if possible …

The current paper studies equity markets for the contagion of squared index returns as a proxy for stock market … squared stock returns of all 35 stock indices studied. Empirical findings show the evidence of contagion during the global … financial crisis (GFC) and Euro Zone crisis (EZC). The intensity of contagion varies depending on its sources. This implies that …

This paper analyzes sovereign risk shift-contagion, i.e. positive and significant changes in the propagation mechanisms … propagation of shocks in euro's bond yield spreads shows almost no presence of shift-contagion. All the increases in correlation …

This paper addresses the following questions. Is there evidence of financial contagion in the Eurozone? To what extent … a country's vulnerability to contagion depends on "fundamentals" as opposed the government's "credibility"? We look at … matter concerning the Euro Zone. Second, differences in vulnerability to contagion within the Eurozone are even more …

positive shocks, which creates moral hazard and is best explained by a “too-systemic-to-fail” effect. The contagion effects are … economically significant contagion channel for tail spread increases …