The paper provides detailed empirical assessment of the role of non-residents in the development of Rus-sian financial crisis in 1997-1998. It is established that non-residents behaved differently during the pe-riod of crisis and significantly contributed to the collapse of the state bonds market. In particular, we found that sharp downturn in May 1998 was caused by contagious selling on the part of foreign investors following Indonesian crisis. At the same time, we question the common view that non-residents were lar-gely responsible for market pressures at the initial stage of the crisis. In this paper we go a little beyond the discussion of Russian crisis and propose alternative explanation of contagious outflow of foreign ca-pital. We combine CAPM and findings of Forbes and Rigobon (2001) to show that international portfolio investors are more sensitive to pure external shocks and less sensitive to pure domestic ones.
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Paper provided by Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition in its series BOFIT Discussion Papers with number
6/2001.
Length: 42 pages Date of creation: 25 Jul 2001 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:hhs:bofitp:2001_006
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