On currency crises and contagion

International Journal of Finance and Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 109-129

  Fratzscher, Marcel ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contagion; Currency crises; Markov switching models; Panel data; Prediction

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY MARKET; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; FINANCIAL CRISIS;

EID: 0037399454     PISSN: 10769307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.203     Document Type: Article

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