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estimation results show that high-income countries exhibit higher degrees of risk sharing than developing countries, and that the …This paper examines the extent of consumption risk sharing for a group of 50 high-income and developing countries. The … interpretation of coefficients of partial risk sharing even when the null hypothesis of perfect risk sharing is rejected. The …
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transactions take place. The authors find that globalization via the diversification channel expanded throughout the world during …
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"push" variables. Recursive estimation of the factor model reveals a rising trend in the exposure of countries' flows to the …
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This paper computes a new financial globalization index for a large sample of countries for 1992-2016. Unlike other measures, the financial globalization index corrects for the heteroscedasticity of global volatility. This leads to a downward adjustment of financial globalization trends for...
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The accumulated experience of emerging markets over the past two decades has laid bare the tenuous links between external financial integration and faster growth, on the one hand, and the proclivity of such integration to fuel costly crises on the other. These crises have not gone without...
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(the VIX, the U.S. real interest rate and real exchange rate, U.S. GDP growth, and world commodity prices) that explain …
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The authors address two questions: What happens to stock market size, liquidity, volatility, and integration with world …
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The authors study whether capital controls affect the link between domestic and foreign stock market prices and interest rates. To examine the characteristics of international market integration and the effects of capital controls in the short and long run, they apply band-pass filter techniques...
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Using data on net exports and factor endowments for more than 100 countries, this paper studies the relationship between factor endowments and comparative advantage in 28 manufacturing sectors between 1975 and 2010. The authors allow for systematic technological differences across countries,...
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The paper focuses on durable goods and their role in the measurement of living standards. The paper reviews the theoretical underpinnings of the methods available to estimate the value of the services flowing from consumer durable goods. It also provides a unified framework that encompasses the...
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