Tag Archives for contagion
G8-Action Plan on Local Bond Markets – Missing Follow-Up Documents
The overview of G8 Action Plan on Local Bond Markets lists a couple of documents that were mentioned in the implementation report to be published soon, but have not been published since: IMF: “ABS in Emerging Markets: Recent Trends and … Continue reading
Contagion – Definition by Worldbank
The World Bank has a fairly comprehensive overview over different definitions of contagion and documents related to recent contagious events in the financial markets. Some excerpts: Broad Definition: Contagion is the cross-country transmission of shocks or the general cross-country spillover … Continue reading
Contagion – Definition by Calomiris
In his article on Global Financial Architecture, Charles Calomiris defines “Contagion”: Correlations in asset returns are much higher across emerging market countries during crises than at other times, and even government bond yields move together to an unusual degree during … Continue reading
Trilemma in financial supervision – Schoenmaker, Oosterloo
Dirk Schoenmaker and Sander Osterloo from the Dutch Finance Ministry have written an article about Cross-border issues in European financial supervision as part of the book on the Structure of Financial Regulation by David G Mayes and Geoffrey E Wood. … Continue reading
Intergovernmentalism in Financial Regulation
Puzzling Complexity The global financial architecture is very complex. Despite increasing liberalization of financial markets, increased system risk and integration of the economies through the financial markets in the last 30 years, there is no single World Financial Authority regulating … Continue reading
Systemic Risk – Discussion by Alexander, Eatwell, Dhumale
In their book “Global Governance of Financial Systems” the authors try to define the various dimensions of Systemic Risk. The CMAP (click on the picture to see the full picture) outlines the main concepts that the authors introduce. Systemic risk … Continue reading