IMF Working Papers

Global Financial Crisis, Financial Contagion, and Emerging Markets

Author/Editor:

Gülçin Özkan ; Filiz D Unsal

Publication Date:

December 13, 2012

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

The recent global financial crisis was the first in recent history that was triggered by problems in the financial system of the mature economies. Existing work on financial crisis in emerging market countries, however, almost exclusively focus on the role of financial frictions in the domestic economy. In contrast, we propose a two-country DSGE model to investigate the transmission of a global financial crisis that originates from financial frictions in the rest of the world. We find that the scale of financial spillovers from the global to the domestic economy and trade openness are key determinants of the severity of the financial crisis for the domestic economy. Our results also suggest that the welfare ranking of alternative monetary policy regimes is determined by the degree of financial contagion, the degree of trade openness as well as the scale of foreign currency denominated debt in the domestic economy.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2012/293

Subject:

Conventional peg Exchange rate arrangements Financial contagion Financial crises Financial sector policy and analysis Foreign exchange Labor Self-employment