Financial integration and consumption risk sharing and smoothing
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Article history: Received 25 April 2012 Received in revised form 13 August 2013 Accepted 14 August 2013 Available online 27 August 2013 While paying careful attention to the stochastic properties of income process, this paper tests the joint rational expectation and permanent income hypothesis (RE/PIH) to clarify how and to what degree financial integration delinks national income and consumption. It is shown that both the OECD and the non-OECD countries benefit from financial integration in terms of consumption risk sharing and smoothing. The RE/PIH for the transitory income is not rejected for the OECD countries suggesting full consumption smoothing. Regression results also support the RE/PIH prediction that financial integration delivers even larger increases in consumption responding to positive shocks to income growth. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. JEL classification: F41 F36 E21
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