related payment and settlement systems. At the heart of systemic risk are contagion effects, various forms of external effects … rigorous models of bank and payment system contagion have now been developed, although a general theoretical paradigm is still … missing. Direct econometric tests of bank contagion effects seem to be mainly limited to the United States. Empirical studies …

test for contagion by applying the multivariate structural break test of Qu and Perron (2007) on this FAVAR detecting … Spain are central to shock transmission 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 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 …

foreign exchange and stock markets, indicating a tendency toward contagion. In searching for the origins of financial market …

experienced contagion from Greece. There is no evidence of significant speculation effects originating from CDS markets. Finally …

crisis started in October 2009. We perform a bivariate test for contagion that is based on an approach proposed by Forbes and … and industrialized countries. Our results indicate that there were periods of contagion for CDS markets during the Greek … crash and their conclusion of no contagion, only interdependence. Especially for European countries we would instead …