Partial Consumption Insurance and Financial Openness Across the World / Constantino Hevia, Luis Servén.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hevia, Constantino, author.

Servén, Luis, author.

Series:

Policy research working papers.

Policy research working papers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics).

International finance.

Monetary policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (39 pages).

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : World Bank, 2013.

Summary:

This paper examines the extent of international consumption risk sharing for a group of 50 industrial and developing countries. The analysis is based on the empirical implementation of a model of partial consumption insurance whose parameters have the natural interpretation of coefficients of partial risk sharing even when the hypothesis of perfect risk sharing is rejected. Estimation results show that rich countries exhibit higher degrees of risk sharing than developing countries, and that the gap between both country groups appears to have widened over the period of financial globalization. Moreover, the pattern of consumption risk sharing is related to the degree of financial openness: countries with larger stocks of foreign assets or liabilities exhibit larger degrees of risk sharing. Furthermore, countries whose foreign asset stocks are more tilted towards foreign direct investment assets also show higher degrees of consumption risk sharing.

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Publisher Number:

10.1596/1813-9450-6479