Matsumoto, Akito; Flood, Robert P.; Marion, Nancy P. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
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 …