<p><strong>Contagion, in financial terms, refers to the diffusion of economic booms, and can occur both domestically and globally</strong>. It is basically a spread of an economic crisis from one region to another, and spreads on an international level due to the global market interdependence.</p>
<p>The term <em>contagion</em> was coined during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, but it was occurring namelessly even during the Great Depression in the 1930s.</p>

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<p>Developing countries and emerging markets are often more susceptible to be affected by a contagion, whereas large, established markets can weather them to a greater degree.</p>
<p>Periodic, global financial crises has been a staple of the economy for every decade since 1825, in one form or another.</p>

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<p>A contagion is the spread of an economic crisis from one market or region to another and can occur at both a domestic or international level. </p>

<ul><li>A contagion is the spread of an economic crisis from one market or region to another and can occur at both a domestic or international level. </li><li>Many academics and analysts see contagions as being primarily symptomatic of global market interdependence. </li><li>Usually associated with financial crises, contagions can be manifested as negative externalities diffused from one crashing market to another. </li> </ul>

<p>Contagions are typically associated with the diffusion of economic crises throughout a market, asset class, or geographic region; technically, it could also refer to the diffusion of economic <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/boom.asp">booms </a>. Contagions occur both globally and domestically, but they have become more prominent phenomena as the global economy has grown and <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economy.asp">economies </a>within certain geographic regions have become more correlated with one another. Many academics and analysts see contagions as being primarily symptomatic of global market interdependence. </p>

<p>Usually associated with <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financial-crisis.asp">financial crises </a>, contagions can be manifested as negative externalities diffused from one crashing market to another. In a domestic market, it can occur if one large bank sells most of its assets quickly and confidence in other large banks drops accordingly. In principle, the same process occurs when international markets crash, with cross-border investment and trade contributing to a domino effect of closely correlated regional currencies, as in the 1997 crisis when the Thai baht collapsed. This watershed moment, the roots of which lay in gross excess of dollar-denominated debt in the region, quickly spread to nearby East Asian countries, resulting in widespread currency and market crises in the region. The fallout from the crisis also struck emerging markets in Latin America and Eastern Europe, which is indicative of the capacity of contagions to spread quickly beyond regional markets. </p>

<p>Contagions are named as such for their potential to spread quickly and (seemingly) unexpectedly. Global investment and cross-border trade make financial contagions more likely, especially among developing countries or emerging markets. In these markets, contagions are often exacerbated by <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/asymmetricinformation.asp">asymmetric information </a>, which results in both unsustainable investments and reactionary market downturns in response to the weakening of nearby or closely correlated markets. Larger and more established markets are better able to weather financial contagions than developing economies; despite neighboring most of the Asian countries afflicted by the crisis, China's markets emerged mostly unscathed. </p>

<p>The term was first coined during the <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/asian-financial-crisis.asp">1997 Asian financial markets crisis </a>, but the phenomenon had been functionally evident much earlier. The global <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/great_depression.asp">Great Depression </a>, triggered by the 1929 U.S. stock market crash, remains an especially striking example of the effects of contagion in an integrated global economy. </p>

<p>After the Asian financial crisis, scholars started to investigate how previous financial crises spread across national borders, and they concluded that the "nineteenth century had periodic international financial crises in virtually every decade since 1825." In that year, a banking crisis that originated in London spread to the rest of Europe and eventually Latin America. In a pattern that has been repeated ever since, the roots of the crisis were in revolution and growth at the periphery of the global financial system. After much of Latin America had been liberated from Spain in the early part of the 19th century, speculators in Europe poured cash into the continent. Investment in Latin America became a speculative bubble, and in 1825, the Bank of England, fearing massive gold outflows, raised its discount rate, which in turn sparked a stock market crash. The ensuing panic spread to continental Europe. </p>

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