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Other authors / contributors: | Marion, Nancy Peregrim, author.
Matsumoto, Akito, author.
International Monetary Fund.
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ISBN: | 1462371906 9781462371907 1282844156 9781282844155 9786612844157 6612844159 1452771251 9781452771250 1451873565 9781451873566
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Digital file characteristics: | text file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-38). Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | 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.
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Other form: | Print version: Flood, Robert P. International risk sharing during the globalization era. [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, ©2009
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