certainly nowhere near the levels predicted by theory. In addition, only industrial countries have attained better risk sharing …In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international … risk sharing. This paper provides a comprehensive empirical evaluation of the patterns of risk sharing among different …

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 …

This paper estimates an empirical nonstationary panel regression model that tests long-run consumption risk sharing … risk sharing, which is mainly about risks at business cycle frequency. Since our methodology focuses on identifying … cointegrating relationships while allowing for arbitrary short-run dynamics, we can obtain a consistent estimate of long-run risk …

only up to a certain threshold. The benefits of financial integration in terms of improved risk-sharing and consumption …

standard economic theory and a more benign interpretation of cross-border private capital flows. The key observation is that a …

capital account openness, the prediction of the neoclassical theory is confirmed: less developed countries tend to experience …