Transmission of Volatility between Stock Markets

Mervyn A King and Sushil Wadhwani

Review of Financial Studies, 1990, vol. 3, issue 1, pages 5-33

Abstract: This article investigates why, in October 1987, almost all stock markets fell together despite widely differing economic circumstances. The authors construct a model in which "contagion" between markets occurs as a 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. The authors offer supporting evidence for contagion effects using two different sources of data. Article published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Financial Studies in its journal, The Review of Financial Studies.

Date: 1990
View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/listjournal.fcg/08939454 full text (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to JSTOR subscribers. See http://www.jstor.org for details.

Related works:
Working Paper: Transmission of Volatility Between Stock Markets (1989)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:rfinst:v:3:y:1990:i:1:p:5-33

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www4.oup.co.uk/revfin/subinfo/

Access Statistics for this article

Review of Financial Studies is edited by Maureen O'Hara

More articles in Review of Financial Studies from Oxford University Press for Society for Financial Studies
Address: Oxford University Press, Journals Department, 2001 Evans Road, Cary, NC 27513 USA.
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Christopher F. Baum ().