Exchange Rates Contagion in Latin America

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
842
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
C32, C51
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

A regular vine copula approach is implemented for testing for contagion among the exchange rates of the six largest Latin American countries. Using daily data from June 2005 through April 2012, we find evidence of contagion among the Brazilian, Chilean, C