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American Economic Review: Vol. 91 No. 4 (September 2001)
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World Income Components: Measuring and Exploiting Risk-Sharing Opportunities
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Athanasoulis, Stefano G., and
Robert J. Shiller. 2001. "World Income Components: Measuring and Exploiting Risk-Sharing Opportunities."
American Economic Review,
91(4): 1031-1054.
DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.4.1031
DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.4.1031
Abstract
A method is constructed for decomposing the variance of changes in incomes in the world into components, to indicate the most important risk-sharing opportunities among people of the world. A constant absolute risk premium (CARP) model, an intertemporal general-equilibrium model of the world, is presented to permit optimal contract design. For a contract designer maximizing a social welfare function, the optimal contracts maximize the equilibrium world real interest rate. Securities are defined in terms of eigenvectors of a transformed variance matrix. The method is applied using Penn World Table data on the G-7 countries, 1950-92.
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Athanasoulis, Stefano G. (U Notre Dame)
Shiller, Robert J. (Yale U)
Shiller, Robert J. (Yale U)
JEL Classifications
F40: Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance: General
G15: International Financial Markets
G15: International Financial Markets
