Author : Mervyn A. King
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (198 download)
Book Synopsis Transmission of Volatility Between Stock Markets by : Mervyn A. King
Download or read book Transmission of Volatility Between Stock Markets written by Mervyn A. King and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates why, in October 1987, almost all stock markets fell together despite widely differing economic circumstances. The idea is that "contagion" between markets occurs as the result of attempts by rational agents to infer information from price changes in other markets. This provides a channel through which a "mistake" in one market can be transmitted to other markets. Hourly stock price data from New York, Tokyo and London during an eight month period around the crash offer support for the contagion model. In addition, the magnitude of the contagion coefficients are found to increase with volatility.