High-frequency contagion of currency crises in Asia

Asian Economic Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 357-381

  Ito, Takatoshi ^a   Hashimoto, Yuko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asian currency crisis; Contagion; High frequency; Trade linkage

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY; EXCHANGE RATE; FINANCIAL CRISIS; STOCK MARKET;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 33745246016     PISSN: 13513958     EISSN: 14678381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8381.2005.00217.x     Document Type: Article

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