financial contagion

Definition

A situation in which a faltering economy in one country causes otherwise healthy economies in other countries to have problems. Financial contagion often becomes a large problem for the direct or regional neighbors of the troubled economy. See also currency crisis, financial crisis, economic crisis.


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