Contagion are disturbances in financial markets in one country or region triggering off a financial crisis in other countries and regions.

1 [uncountable] medical a situation in which a disease can be spread from one person or animal to another through touch or through the airSynonyms and related words Infection and fighting infecti [..]

late 14c., from Old French contagion, from Latin contagionem (nominative contagio) "a touching, contact, contagion," related to contingere "touch closely" (see contact (n.)).

A historic expression referring to the transmission of disease between people by means of direct contact.

The phenomenon of a financial crisis in one country spilling over to another, which then suffers many of the same problems.

n. The communication of disease from person to person.

Definition When an economic crisis in one country's bond or equity markets spreads to other countries which experience the same problems. The term comes from the more general definition of contag [..]

with regard to social theory, the expansion of behaviors, moods, and impressions via masses of people and various other kinds of societal conglomerations from one person to another person.

A disease that is spread from host

Scenario where one negative event feeds into a strengthening cascade of additional negative events. A singular bank failure could be an example in that once one bank fails, customers at other banks wi [..]

Positive contagion is the tendency during a bubble period for new players to be attracted by the profits being earned by existing players. Negative contagion is the tendency during a financial cri [..]

When used in financial markets, contagion is a term associated with the kind of market turmoil seen in 2007 as well as previous crises such as those of 2001 and 1998…

Contagion, typically a financial or banking crisis, engulfs several banks, markets, and countries.

(n) any disease easily transmitted by contact(n) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted(n) the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people

the factors by which crises transmit from market to market or country to country. High levels of leverage by a number of banks create increased risk of ’common creditor’ contagion. This explains why uncorrelated, seemingly unrelated markets, or assets (or for that matter countries) get tangled up in the same crisis cycle. Often behind such contagio [..]

Phenomenon when one country's economy is shaken because of changes in the asset prices of another country's financial market.

A phenomenon whereby susceptible individuals are influenced towards suicidal behaviour through the knowledge of another person’s suicidal behaviour (US Department of Health and Human Services, Public [..]

a phenomenon whereby susceptible persons are influenced towards suicidal behavior through knowledge of another person’s suicidal acts Culturally appropriate

A disease spread by contact The spread or transmission of such a disease The spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease (finance) A situation in which small shocks, which initial [..]

Refers to an increase in correlation of asset returns that is more than expected. Sometimes also called excess correlation. For example, during the East Asian crisis that began in July 1997 when the T [..]