Risk-sharing by financial markets in federal systems: a critique of existing empirical assessments

Sebastian Dullien

Review of Keynesian Economics, 2019, vol. 7, issue 3, 361-368

Abstract: This paper criticizes the standard methodology used to measure the importance of different channels of risk-sharing in federal states such as the one used in Asdrubali et al.'s (1996) seminal contribution. It argues that the methodology chosen in these papers systematically underestimates the role federal governments play in stabilizing the business cycle in its member states (and overstates the role of financial markets in stabilization) as it (a) ignores the possibility of direct spending by the federal government in a single state stabilizing state GDP, (b) strips out effects of transfers and grants in national recessions, (c) counts smoothing of distributed profits by domestic firms as 'smoothing by capital markets' and (d) counts a normal variation of households' savings to smooth consumption as 'smoothing by credit markets'.

Keywords: European Monetary Union; income insurance; international capital markets; international integration; risk-sharing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F36 F45 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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