Currency Crisis and Contagion: Evidence From Exchange Rates and Sectoral Stock Indices of the Philippines and Thailand

February 1, 2000

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Jun Nagayasu. Currency Crisis and Contagion: Evidence From Exchange Rates and Sectoral Stock Indices of the Philippines and Thailand, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

This paper analyzes empirically the recent Asian financial crisis using high frequency data of exchange rates and stock indices of the Philippines and Thailand. Utilizing standard time-series techniques, this study confirms that there is evidence that developments in some sectoral indices—including those of banking and financial sectors—seem to have caused upward pressure on exchange rates. A correlation between some of these variables is also found to be strong across countries in the crisis period, thereby confirming the importance of the linkages between financial markets as a transmission channel of the Thai crisis to the Philippines.

Subject: Asset prices, Currency crises, Exchange rate indexes, Exchange rates, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Foreign exchange, Prices, Stocks

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Asian financial crisis, Asset prices, Benchmark stock indices, Contagion, Currency crises, Exchange rate indexes, Exchange rate movement, Exchange rates, Food sector index, Global, High frequency stock indices, Sectoral indices, Sectoral stock indices, Stock indices of the Philippines, Stock indices of the trading sector, Stocks, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

26
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2000/039
Stock No:

WPIEA0392000
ISBN:

9781451845822
ISSN:

1018-5941

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