The euro area sovereign debt crisis: Can contagion spread from the periphery to the core?

International Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 30, Issue , 2014, Pages 78-100

  Gorea, Denis ^a   Radev, Deyan ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Financial distress; Sovereign debt; Tail risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891493604     PISSN: 10590560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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