Risk Sharing: A Long Run Issue?

Author: Pierucci Eleonora   Ventura Luigi  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 0923-7992

Source: Open Economies Review, Vol.21, Iss.5, 2010-11, pp. : 705-730

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Abstract

We suggest, by means of integration and cointegration tools, and error correction model regressions, that international risk sharing is predominantly a short run concern. This finding has been obtained by using some new variants of the standard consumption insurance tests, and runs counter to some other recent empirical evidence. Moreover, we find mixed evidence as to the fact that the recent surge in international financial liberalization has improved on risk sharing, at least in the long run.