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This paper assesses the role of a popular collateral constraint–based transmission mechanism in the North–South transmission of the 2008–2009 financial crisis. Theoretically, in the presence of collateral constraints, depressed asset prices caused by a negative shock in a large creditor country generate feedback cycles in a smaller debtor country, in which the decline in borrowing capacity and the...