Risk Sharing and Industrial Specialization: Regional and International Evidence

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent Sorensen and O. Yosha

Working Papers from Tel Aviv

Abstract: We provide empirical evidence that risk sharing enhances specialization in production. To the best of our knowledge, this well-established and important theoretical proposition has not been tested before. Our empirical procedure is summarized as follows. First, we construct a measure of specialization in production, and calculate an index of specialization for each of the European Community (EC) and non-EC OECD countries, U.S. states, Canadian provinces, Japanese prefectures, Latin American countries, and regions of Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Then we estimate the degree of capital market integration (a measure of risk sharing) within each of these groups of regions: The EC countries, the non-EC OECD countries, the United States, Canada, Japan, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom (and rely on another author's estimate for Latin America). Finally, we perform a regression of the specialization index on the degree of risk sharing, controlling for relevant economic variables.

Keywords: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; RISK; INDUSTRY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 L10 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 1999
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