Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/48143 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 02/02
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Dresden
Abstract: 
This paper investigates contagion effects. In a model with highly and lowly informed investors we show that a currency crisis in one country can trigger a crisis in another country. Portfolio losses of the highly informed investors in one country will force them to withdraw capital from the other country. The behavior of the lowly informed investors multiplies this effect and the other country becomes more and more vulnerable. In the empirical part we focus on the Asian crisis (1997/98). Using a LOGIT approach we can show that contagion, in the sense of a crisis not explainable by economic fundamentals but by exchange rate losses resulting from investment in other countries, seems to have caused the currency crises of the Philippines and especially of Singapore.
Subjects: 
Contagion
Currency crises
Asian crisis
JEL: 
F3
F4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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