Notes
1 Kodres, Laura E. and Matthew Pritsker, April 19, 2001, A Rational Expectations Model of Financial Contagion, Forthcoming in the Journal of Finance2 Kodres, p 4
3 Kodres, p 24
4 Kodres, p 5-7
5 Kodres, p 9-10
6 Some of the assumptions made in constructing the model, such as the assumption of CARA utility functions and the assumption that investors can borrow unrestrictedly, eliminate these effects. Kodres, p 13
7 Kodres p 13
8 Kodres, p 13
9 Kodres, p 13
10 Kodres, p 2-4
11 Kodres, p 31
12 Kodres, p 20
13 Kodres, p21
14 As found in "On the Efficiency of the Financial System" by James Tobin
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