2002/11/01 by Manmohan Kumar, Avinash Persaud · 3 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Global Financial Crisis and Policies #Market Dynamics and Volatility #Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/1468-2362.00102
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This paper discusses a ‘pure’ form of financial contagion, unrelated to economic fundamentals – investors’ shifting appetite for risk. It provides an analytical framework for identifying changes in investors’ risk appetite and discusses whether it is possible to directly measure them in a way that can enable policy makers to differentiate between financial contagion and domestic fundamentals as the immediate source of a crisis. Daily measures of risk appetite are computed and their usefulness in predicting financial crises is assessed.