Regional vulnerability: The case of East Asia

Journal of International Money and Finance

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1292-1310

  Mody, Ashoka ^a   Taylor, Mark P ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contagion; Currency crisis; Dynamic factor analysis; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 36349023143     PISSN: 02615606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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