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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817535303321

Autore

Matsumoto Akito

Titolo

The International Diversification Puzzle when Goods Prices Are Sticky : : It's Really About Exchange-Rate Hedging, not Equity Portfolios / / Akito Matsumoto, Charles Engel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-4623-0432-X

9786612842344

1-4519-8828-1

1-4518-7159-7

1-282-84234-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

47 p

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

EngelCharles

Disciplina

332.152

Soggetti

Hedging (Finance)

Foreign exchange rates

Banks and Banking

Investments: Stocks

Macroeconomics

Money and Monetary Policy

International Finance: General

Foreign Exchange

Open Economy Macroeconomics

Portfolio Choice

Investment Decisions

Pension Funds

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

Price Level

Inflation

Deflation

Monetary Systems

Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving



Wealth

Financing Policy

Financial Risk and Risk Management

Capital and Ownership Structure

Value of Firms

Goodwill

Investment & securities

Monetary economics

Financial services law & regulation

Stocks

Sticky prices

Currencies

Consumption

Hedging

Financial institutions

Prices

Money

Financial regulation and supervision

National accounts

Economics

Financial risk management

United States

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.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. A General Result in a Static Framework -- III. A Simple Equilibrium Static Model -- A. Households -- B. Firms -- C. Solution of the Static Model -- IV. Dynamic Model -- A. Household Problem -- B. Firms -- C. Solution of the Dynamic Model -- D. Calibrated Portfolios -- V. Conclusion -- Table -- 1. Optimal Portfolio Shares of Foreign Equities -- Appendix -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper develops a two-country monetary DSGE model in which households choose a portfolio of home and foreign equities, and a forward position in foreign exchange. Some nominal goods prices are sticky. Trade in these assets achieves the same allocations as trade in a complete set of nominal state-contingent claims in our linearized model. When there is a high degree of price stickiness, we show that not much equity diversification is required to replicate the complete-markets equilibrium when agents are able to hedge foreign exchange risk sufficiently. Moreover, temporarily sticky nominal goods prices can have large effects on equity portfolios even when dividend processes are very persistent.