Contagion: epidemiological models and financial crises.

@article{Peckham2014ContagionEM,
  title={Contagion: epidemiological models and financial crises.},
  author={Robert Peckham},
  journal={Journal of public health},
  year={2014},
  volume={36 1},
  pages={
          13-7
        }
}
  • R. Peckham
  • Published 1 March 2014
  • Economics
  • Journal of public health
Since the 1990s, economists have drawn on the epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases to explain the diffusion of shock through an increasingly complex financial system. The successful coordination of public health responses to disease threats, and in particular the epidemiological modelling underpinning infection control, has influenced economists' understanding of the risks posed to the stability of the financial system by 'contagion'. While the exportation of analytic models and frames… 
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