Contagious Currency Crises

50 Pages Posted: 3 Oct 1996 Last revised: 3 Oct 2010

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Barry Eichengreen

University of California, Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Andrew Kenan Rose

University of California - Haas School of Business; NUS Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Charles Wyplosz

University of Geneva - Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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Date Written: July 1996

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the fact that the incidence of speculative attacks tends to be temporally correlated; that is, currency crises appear to pass contagiously from one country to another. The paper provides a survey of the theoretical literature, and analyzes the contagious nature of currency crises empirically. Using thirty years of panel data from twenty industrialized countries, we find evidence of contagion. Contagion appears to spread more easily to countries which are closely tied by international trade linkages than to countries in similar macroeconomic circumstances.

Suggested Citation

Eichengreen, Barry and Rose, Andrew Kenan and Rose, Andrew Kenan and Wyplosz, Charles, Contagious Currency Crises (July 1996). NBER Working Paper No. w5681, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4281

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