Do regional trade and specialization drive intra-regional risk-sharing?

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The goal of the present paper is two-fold. First, I explore the impact of different trade patterns on industrial specialisation and consequently on business cycle co-movements between and within different regions. Especially, I emphasize industrial specialisation as a result of intra- or inter-industry trade. Furthermore, I justify the predictions of different theoretical trade models on the basis of my results . Second, I analyse the degree of risk-sharing between and within the regions in dependence of the previous step. In particular, the purpose is to clarify direct and indirect channels between trade, specialisation, business cycle co-movements and risk sharing. The expectations are that countries within a region with homogeneous specialisations show intra-industry trade. Hence regional business-cycles converge. Consequently, risk-sharing within these regions is not possible. These countries tend to be more internationally .nancially integrated than regionally. Inter-industry trade arises in countries within regions with heterogeneous specialisation. As a result regional business-cycles diverge. Now, countries can share risk within the region. Regional financial integration is stronger for these countries than international financial integration. One further question is: do the same patterns create risk sharing also in the means of consumption co-movements between or within a region?

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 2008,13

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Integration ; Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
• Subject: Trade ; Specialization ; Risk Sharing

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Pfeffer, Barbara
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
• (where): Marburg
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/30132
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