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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464011703321

Autore

Engel Charles

Titolo

International risk sharing [[electronic resource] ] : through equity diversification or exchange rate hedging? / / prepared by Charles Engel and Akito Matsumoto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington D.C.], : International Monetary Fund, 2009

ISBN

1-4623-3256-0

1-4527-5511-6

9786612843525

1-282-84352-4

1-4518-7285-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (47 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/09/138

Altri autori (Persone)

MatsumotoAkito

Soggetti

Risk

Hedging (Finance)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. A General Result in a Static Framework; III. A Dynamic Sticky-Price Model with Local-Currency Pricing; A. Household Problem; B. Firms; C. Equilibrium Portfolios under LCP and Flexible Wages; D. Equilibrium Portfolios under LCP and Sticky Wages; E. A Dynamic Sticky-Price Model with Producer-Currency Pricing; IV. Conclusion; Tables; 1. Optimal Portfolios under LCP, Flexible Wages; 2. Optimal Portfolios under LCP, Sticky Wages; 3. Optimal Portfolios under PCP, Flexible Wages; 4. Optimal Portfolios under PCP, Sticky Wages; References

Sommario/riassunto

Well-known empirical puzzles in international macroeconomics concern the large divergence of equilibrium outcomes for consumption across countries from the predictions of models with full risk sharing. It is commonly believed that these risk-sharing puzzles are related to another empirical puzzle-the home-bias in equity puzzle. However, we show in a series of dynamic models that the full risk sharing equilibrium may not require much diversification of equity portfolios



when there is price stickiness of the degree typically calibrated in macroeconomic models. This conclusion holds under a range