This study focuses on the diversification benefits of the most developed equity markets of Central and Eastern Europe … (CEE). To evaluate these benefits of diversification we use so-called spanning tests based on a stochastic discount factor …

's vulnerability to periods of heightened risk and uncertainty. This paper develops a framework to evaluate such vulnerabilities. It … and explore how they are affected by domestic and global risk. We apply this framework to ten OECD economies, showing the … Kingdom, show that a substantial degree of international risk sharing can occur through current accounts and international …

We discuss how cross-country unemployment insurance can be used to improve international risk sharing. We use a two … international risk sharing concerns enter the unemployment insurance trade-off. We calibrate our model to Eurozone data and find …

Labor productivity is more procyclical in OECD countries with lower employment volatility. To capture this new stylized … our model with variable effort, greater labor market frictions are associated with procyclical labor productivity as well … data. By implication, labor market deregulation has a greater effect on the cyclicality of labor productivity and on the …