The asymmetric effect of diffusion processes: Risk sharing and contagion

Global Economy Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Gallegati, Mauro ^a   Greenwald, Bruce ^b   Richiardi, Matteo G ^a   Stiglitz, Joseph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

Author keywords

Contagion; Financial crisis; Networks; Risk sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549103731     PISSN: 15245861     EISSN: 15245861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1524-5861.1365     Document Type: Article

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