This paper studies the contagion of fire sale across asset markets through the price effect. When a distressed trader liquidates her stock holding quickly, the fire sale will depress the asset price and other shareholders will incur mark-to-market losses. If the losses are large enough, these shareholders may also have to liquidate other assets they hold, and the liquidation can spread out and ...

Employing the Differential Dynamics Method, a nonlinear dynamic model is set up to describe the international financial crises contagion within a short time between two countries. The two countries’ control force depending on the timely financial assistance, the positive attitude and actions to rescue other infected countries, and investor confidence aggregation, and the immunity ability of the...

VanderWeele et al.'s paper is a useful contribution to the on-going scientific conversation about the detection of contagion from purely observational data. It is especially helpful as a corrective to some of the more extreme statements of Lyons (2011). Unfortunately, this paper, too, goes too far in some places, and so needs some correction itself.

OBJECTIVE To reconcile empirical inconsistencies in the relationship between emotionally-negative families and daughters' abnormal eating, we hypothesized a critical moderating variable: daughters' vulnerability to emotion contagion. METHOD A nonclinical sample of undergraduate females (N = 92) was recruited via an advertisement and completed self-report measures validated for assessing: fami...

Ideomotor theory of human action control proposes that activation of a motor representation can occur either through internally intended or externally perceived actions. Critically, sometimes these two ways of eliciting a motor response may be conflicting, for example when intending one action and perceiving another, necessitating the recruitment of enhanced action control processes to avoid mo...

This research explores the repurchase intentions of technology consumers who have experienced malfunctions of purchased products. Identifying the theoretical factors associated with repurchase intentions is essential for testing the applicability of technology adoption research within the context of different product lifecycles. Also, it is an important matter for technology companies in shapin...

Much of the current debate on reforming the international financial architecture is aimed at reducing the risks of contagion—best defined as a significant increase in cross-market linkages after a shock to an individual country (or group of countries). This definition highlights the importance of other links through which shocks are normally transmitted, including trade and finance. During time...

Many simulations use emotional contagion to simulate how groups of humans behave in emotionally charged environments. These models either have each individual agent conform to a group emotion, or have emotional spirals. However, these models do not include well known phenomenon such as displaying and receiving emotions through different means of communication, or having emotions masked by an ag...

We study proliferation of an action in a network coordination game that is generalized to include tractable, model-based measure virality make it more realistic. present new algorithms compute contagion thresholds and equilibrium depth prove their theoretical properties. These apply arbitrary connected networks starting sets, both with without virality. Our are easy implement help quantify rela...