Bitter experience has shown us that instability in one State can have a powerful contagion effect far beyond its borders.

Stopping the Syria Contagion

It also appeared that since the Russian crisis there has not been a contagion effect in the forms of drying up of credit or higher spreads for other emerging market countries.

Third, and no less important, is the speculative contagion that underlies any bubble. The current boom has seen contagion

There's emotional contagion that takes place in human populations.

And, in fact, emotional contagion can be broader still.

In my view, bubbles are social epidemics, fostered by a sort of interpersonal contagion. A bubble forms when the contagion rate goes up for ideas that support a bubble.

Mistaken beliefs, on the other hand, are reflected in metaphors like contagion and domino effect, which imply that financial markets become blind, virulent, and indiscriminate when they are disturbed. Such terms provoke fear that, once confidence in any one country is lost, all others are in danger.

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On the Y axis is the cumulative instances of contagion, and on the X axis is the time.

And, not only do they protect the people who sleep under them, but they have these great contagion benefits.

Despite the lack of significant financial contagion risk, a renewed Greek crisis, stemming from a lasting and serious breakdown of negotiations between the new government and EU institutions, would constitute a major problem for European cooperation. The absence of financial contagion would not rule out serious political repercussions.

Second, countries must move together. Otherwise, one country s restructuring will heighten expectations that others will follow, giving rise to contagion.

If half of a community sleeps under a net, the other half also benefits because the contagion of the disease spread.

Concerned about the excessive volatility of speculative short term capital flows and the contagion effects in financial markets in times of crisis,

So this is what's driving the effect, or mediating the effect.

It would seem that bid offer spreads are falling, which we might regard as positive. But volatility has risen, as has cross market contagion.

Substitution effect

Cause and effect.

Effect of declaration

The Snowden Effect

The Lucifer Effect

The Obama Effect

The Tsunami Effect

Entry into effect

Since the crisis, the Asia Pacific countries have looked more closely at developing greater financial cooperation to prevent a contagion and to assist the affected countries.

And we see this when lovers walk down the street, when a crowd in Egypt or Tunisia gets caught up in an emotional contagion, the deep interpenetration.

That's the Lucifer effect.

Effect of this chapter

We know from influenza that a new epidemic can suddenly appear just as an older one is fading, if a new form of the virus appears, or if some environmental factor increases the contagion rate. Similarly, a new speculative bubble can appear anywhere if a new story about the economy appears, and if it has enough narrative strength to spark a new contagion of investor thinking.

And that aggregating effect, that collective action effect, is actually something we can use to our advantage.

Contagion effects, which may not reflect a deterioration of fundamentals but just a common investors base, can be damaging to countries that are highly dependent on foreign financing.

Effect of an arbitration agreement

Effect in domestic territorial units

Huge effect here of Starbucks.

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The effect is just electric.

No sign to this effect.

That is a huge effect.

That's called the grandmother effect.

The Environmental Effect of Tsunamis

Can we effect a compromise?

Effect of the preceding articles

Pregnancy does not effect employment.

Societies should be willing to go out and subsidize the net, give them for free, or, for that matter, pay people to use them because of those contagion benefits.