The contagion affecting News Corp has spread rapidly in the US.
We wanted to know how such "social contagion" affects leaders.
(Newyorkitis, a 1901 book explained, was a contagion affecting a large percentage of the inhabitants of Manhattan Island; the illness arose from an unhealthy addiction to noisy environs).
"Europe's banks are suffering from a contagion affect from the debt crisis," said Jonathan Newman, a banking analyst in London at the investment management firm Brewin Dolphin.
"To have protests in Oman, which had previously been seen as a sleepy gulf kingdom, heightens concerns that nowhere is immune from the contagion affects," said Helima L. Croft, a director and senior geopolitical analyst at Barclays Capital.
(Newyorkitis, a 1901 book explained, was a contagion affecting a large percentage of the inhabitants of Manhattan Island; the illness arose from an unhealthy addiction to noisy environs). Rice argued that the city's poor, particularly the insane and the sick, confined in public hospitals along the East River, on Randall's and Blackwell's islands, suffered miserably on account of tugboat noise.
There is talk too of a contagion affecting markets in Europe, a credit crisis and this potentially being a catalyst for a Black Swan-like event.
The 2002 2003 SARS contagion also affected passenger traffic for medium-haul flights in Southeast Asia, while long-haul flights to North America, Japan, and Europe were less affected.
If DTCC's analysis is correct, the CDS market for Greek debt would not much magnify the consequences of a Greek default -- unless it stimulated contagion that affected other European countries.
12. Negative emotional spirals can be attributed to reasons such as emotional contagion, feeling affect vicariously and behavioral entrainment; see J.R. Kelly and S.G.
