Theories indicate that financial integration should allow economies to better share risk and thus improve consumption smoothing. We construct two widely used price‐based measures of financial integration (i.e., the standard correlation and the adjusted R‐squared) and test whether consumption volatility declines as international equity markets become more integrated. Pooled and panel estimates for three different groups of countries (i.e., G7, G20 and EU) provide no significant evidence of improved consumption smoothing as financial integration rises. This evidence is supported by a battery of robustness checks and holds over time. Taken together, our results suggest that convergence in international equity prices does not necessarily represent the channel through which risk‐sharing opportunities arise or consumption smoothing improves.

Consumption smoothing, risk sharing and financial integration / Donadelli, Michael; Gufler, Ivan. - In: WORLD ECONOMY. - ISSN 0378-5920. - 44:1(2021), pp. 143-187. [10.1111/twec.12996]

Consumption smoothing, risk sharing and financial integration

Donadelli, Michael
;
Gufler, Ivan
2021

Abstract

Theories indicate that financial integration should allow economies to better share risk and thus improve consumption smoothing. We construct two widely used price‐based measures of financial integration (i.e., the standard correlation and the adjusted R‐squared) and test whether consumption volatility declines as international equity markets become more integrated. Pooled and panel estimates for three different groups of countries (i.e., G7, G20 and EU) provide no significant evidence of improved consumption smoothing as financial integration rises. This evidence is supported by a battery of robustness checks and holds over time. Taken together, our results suggest that convergence in international equity prices does not necessarily represent the channel through which risk‐sharing opportunities arise or consumption smoothing improves.
2021
Consumption smoothing, risk sharing and financial integration / Donadelli, Michael; Gufler, Ivan. - In: WORLD ECONOMY. - ISSN 0378-5920. - 44:1(2021), pp. 143-187. [10.1111/twec.12996]
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