Risk Sharing and Financial Contagion in Asia : An Asset Price Perspective /

This paper assesses financial integration in Asia in terms of risk-sharing benefit versus financial-contagion cost. We construct a new measure of risk sharing based on a term structure model, which allows identification of realized stochastic discount factors. Risk sharing is low in Asia, and varies...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rungcharoenkitkul, Phurichai
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/242
Online Access:Full text available on IMF