This study aims, using the Forbes and Rigobon (2002) and Corsetti, Pericoli and Sbracia (2005) suggested methodologies, to verify the contagion effect among fifteen economies during eight financial crisis. The study conclusion is that the Corsetti, Pericoli and Sbracia (2005) model is more efficient to detect contagion, once it considers the variance of the returns components that are not considered at Forbes and Rigobon (2002) approach. The results are corroborated by robustness tests. The most contagion episode is the 1997 Asian crisis, followed by the terrorist attack of 2001 September 11th, 1999 Brazilian crisis, 2000 Internet bubble and the Subprime crisis. The others episodes do not present any evidence of contagion effect. This fact indicates that the shocks were restricted to the crisis origin country.
financial crisis; contagion effect; interdependence; factor analysis
