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| Author: | Kodres, L.E. Pritsker, M. |
| Title: | A rational expectations model of financial contagion |
| Journal: | Journal of Finance
2002 : APR, VOL. 57:2, p. 769-799 |
| Index terms: | Rational expectations Stock markets Macroeconomics Investors Risk Economic crisis Models |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper develops a multiple asset rational expectations model of asset prices to explain financial market contagion. Although the model allows contagion through several channels, the focus is on contagion through cross-market rebalancing. Through this channel, investors transmit idiosyncratic shocks from one market to others by adjusting their portfolios' exposures to shared macroeconomic risks. The pattern and severity of financial contagion depends on markets' sensitivities to shared macroeconomic risk factors, and on the amount of information asymmetry in each market. The model can generate contagion in the absence of news, as well as between markets that do not directly share macroeconomic risks. |
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