Transmission of the U.S. subprime crisis to emerging markets: Evidence on the decoupling-recoupling hypothesis

Michael Dooley and Michael Hutchison

Journal of International Money and Finance, 2009, vol. 28, issue 8, 1331-1349

Abstract: We find that emerging markets appeared to be somewhat insulated from developments in U.S. financial markets from early 2007 to summer 2008. From that point on, however, emerging markets responded very strongly to the deteriorating situation in the U.S. financial system and real economy. Our regression "event study," focusing on 15 types of news, indicates that a range of financial and real economic news emanating from the US had statistically and economically large impacts on 14 emerging markets and several news events uniformly moved markets. Policy measures taken in emerging markets to insulate themselves from global financial developments proved inadequate in the face of the credit crunch and decline in international trade that followed the Lehman bankruptcy in September 2008.

Keywords: Subprime; crisis; Emerging; market; crisis; CDS; spreads; transmission; of; crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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