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Fatal attraction: Using distance to measure contagion in good times as well as bad
2007
This paper proposes a new measure of contagion that is good at anticipating future vulnerabilities. Building on previous work, it uses correlations of equity markets across countries to measure contagion, but in a departure from previous practice measures contagion using the relationship of these correlations with distance. Also in contrast to previous work, our test is good at identifying periods of “positive contagion,” in which capital flows to emerging markets in a herd-like manner largely unrelated to fundamentals. Identifying such periods of “fatal attraction” is important as they provide the essential ingredients for subsequent crises and rapid outflows of capital.
Antibiotics and Resistance: A Fatal Attraction
2013
When penicillin and other classes of antibiotics were discovered and used to treat infectious diseases human morbidity and mortality due to infective microorganisms were successfully contrasted. However, almost as soon as antibacterial drugs were introduced in clinics, bacterial resistance spread. From a biological and microbiological viewpoint, antibacterial drug resistance is a fascinating aspect of molecular evolution, and resistome concept has been introduced to shed light on driving forces that control the spreading and maintenance of resistance genes within microbial populations. Despite the wide range of chemical complexity of antibiotics, there is a restricted number of modes of act…