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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788226503321

Autore

Matsumoto Akito

Titolo

International Risk Sharing During the Globalization Era / / Akito Matsumoto, Robert Flood, Nancy Marion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-4623-7190-6

1-282-84415-6

9786612844157

1-4527-7125-1

1-4518-7356-5

Descrizione fisica

38 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

FloodRobert

MarionNancy

Soggetti

Globalization

Financial risk

Finance: General

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

Macroeconomics: Production

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Finance

Consumption

Income

Production growth

Private consumption

Emerging and frontier financial markets

Economics

Production

Economic theory

Financial services industry

Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Though theory suggests financial globalization should improve international risk sharing, empirical support has been limited. We develop a simple welfare-based measure that captures how far countries are from the ideal of perfect risk sharing. We then take it to data and find international risk sharing has, indeed, improved during globalization. Improved risk sharing comes mostly from the convergence in rates of consumption growth among countries rather than from synchronization of consumption at the business cycle frequency. Our finding explains why many existing measures fail to detect improved risk sharing-they focus only on risk sharing at the business cycle frequency.