Determinants of Financial Stress in Emerging Market Economies

47 Pages Posted: 19 Jul 2013 Last revised: 29 May 2018

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Cyn-Young Park

Asian Development Bank

Rogelio Mercado

The SEACEN Centre; Australian National University (ANU) - Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA)

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Date Written: July 1, 2013

Abstract

The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 illustrates how financial turmoil in advanced economies could trigger severe financial stress in emerging markets. Previous studies dealing with financial crises and contagion show the linkages through which financial stress are transmitted from advanced to emerging markets. This paper extends the existing literature on the use of financial stress index (FSI) in understanding the channels of financial transmission in emerging market economies. Using FSI of 25 emerging markets, our panel regression estimates show that not only advanced economies FSI, but also regional and nonregional emerging market FSIs significantly increase domestic financial stress. Our findings also suggest that there is a common regional factor significantly affecting domestic FSI in emerging Asia and emerging Europe. Furthermore, the results from a structural vector autoregression model with contemporaneous restrictions indicate that although a domestic financial shock still accounts for most of the variation in domestic FSI, regional shocks play an important role in emerging Asia.

Keywords: financial stress index, financial contagion, emerging market economies

JEL Classification: F30, G01, G15

Suggested Citation

Park, Cyn-Young and Mercado, Rogelio, Determinants of Financial Stress in Emerging Market Economies (July 1, 2013). Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 356, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2295802 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2295802

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Australian National University (ANU) - Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) ( email )

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