Common correlated effects and international risk sharing

Peter Fuleky, Luigi Ventura and Qianxue Zhao ()
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Qianxue Zhao: UHERO, University of Hawaii at Manoa

No 2013-17R, Working Papers from University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Abstract: Existing studies of international risk sharing rely on the highly restrictive assumption that all economies are characterized by symmetric preferences and uniform transmission of global shocks. We relax these homogeneity constraints by modeling aggregate and idiosyncratic fluctuations as unobserved components, and we use Pesaran's (2006) common correlated effects estimator to control for common factors and cross-sectional heterogeneity. We compare the proposed approach with the conventional ones using data from Penn World Table 9.0 for 120 countries. While we do not detect a significant increase in risk sharing during the last four decades, our results confirm that consumption is only partially smoothed internationally and risk sharing is directly related to the level of development.

Keywords: Panel data; Cross-sectional dependence; International risk sharing; Consumption insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 C51 E21 F36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2013-03, Revised 2016-08
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Working Paper: Common Correlated Effects and International Risk Sharing (2013)
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