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Contagion, Monsoons, and Domestic Turmoil in Indonesia: A Case Study in the Asian Currency Crisis

By Sweta Chaman Saxena, Valerie Cerra

March 1, 2000

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Sweta Chaman Saxena, and Valerie Cerra. Contagion, Monsoons, and Domestic Turmoil in Indonesia: A Case Study in the Asian Currency Crisis, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed December 26, 2024
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Summary

This paper investigates whether Indonesia’s recent currency crisis was due to domestic fundamentals, common external shocks (“monsoons”), or contagion from neighboring countries. Markov-switching models attribute speculative pressure on Indonesia’s currency to domestic political and financial factors and contagion from speculative pressures in Thailand and Korea. In particular, the results from a time-varying transition probability Markov-switching model (which overcomes some drawbacks of previous methods) show that inclusion of exchange rate pressures from Thailand and Korea in the transition probabilities improves the conditional probabilities of crisis in Indonesia. There is also evidence of contagion in the stock market.

Subject: Econometric analysis, Exchange rates, Financial markets, Foreign exchange, Markov-switching models, Probit models, Real effective exchange rates, Stock markets

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Confidence index, Contagion, Crisis in Indonesia, Crisis state, Currency crisis, East Asia, Exchange rate crisis, Exchange rate pressure, Exchange rates, Forecasted values, Global, Indonesia, Indonesia's MPI, Markov-switching models, MPIS from Thailand, MSM result, Overvalued exchange rate, Pressure in Thailand, Probit models, Real effective exchange rates, South Asia, Stock markets, Transition probability, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    26

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2000/060

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0602000

  • ISBN:

    9781451848045

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941