risk-sharing in the European Union are underway. However, the single (capital) market will be burdened by a perennial … risk-sharing among sovereigns, to introduce synthetic euro bonds that work without debt mutualization. …

reliance of European investors on banks and build up a market-based risk-sharing channel between member states. Our empirical … provide evidence that (i) financial flows are generally pro-cyclical; (ii) market-based risk-sharing mechanisms tend to break … systemic financial crisis. During the Great Recession, failing market risk-sharing was replaced by the ECB through the cross …

I show that risk-sharing pension plans can reduce some of the shortcomings of defined benefit and defined contributions … plans. The risk-sharing pension plan presented aims to improve the stability of benefits paid to generations of members … find that the risk-sharing plan offers more disappointment than a defined contribution plan, but it eliminates the …