On financial liberalization and long-run risk sharing

We address the noted puzzle that despite increased capital mobility, international consumption risk sharing appears to be very limited. For all possible country pairings, we measure idiosyncratic consumption as the difference between national real per capita consumption expenditures. Using a pair-wi...

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Autores: Holmes M.J., Otero Cardona, Jesús Gilberto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Colombia
Institución:Universidad del Rosario
Repositorio:Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/24327
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inteco.2016.05.003
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/24327
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Consumption smoothing
Financial integration
Pair-wise
Risk sharing
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Sumario:We address the noted puzzle that despite increased capital mobility, international consumption risk sharing appears to be very limited. For all possible country pairings, we measure idiosyncratic consumption as the difference between national real per capita consumption expenditures. Using a pair-wise framework based on the time-series properties of idiosyncratic consumption, a probabilistic test for non-stationarity suggests that the extent of risk sharing in fact occurs for a large sample of industrial countries. Further to this, we conduct a probit analysis to confirm a statistically significant positive association between the probability of cointegration between national measures of real per capita consumption and the degree of capital mobility. © 2016 CEPII (Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales), a center for research and expertise on the world economy