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Title: Home Bias and International Risk Sharing: Twin Puzzles Separated at Birth

Author(s): Bent E Sørensen, Yi-Tsung Wu, Oved Yosha and Yu Zhu

Publication Date: June 2005

Keyword(s): consumption smoothing, income smoothing and international portfolio diversification

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: We show that international home bias in bond and equity holdings declined during the late 1990s at the same time as international risk sharing increased. Also, countries with less home bias, on average, tended to obtain more risk sharing in international markets. Using panel data estimations, we demonstrate that less home bias is associated with more international risk sharing when both cross-sectional and time-series dimensions are taken into account. This indicates that lack of risk sharing and international home bias are closely related empirical phenomena.

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Sørensen, B, Wu, Y, Yosha, O and Zhu, Y. 2005. 'Home Bias and International Risk Sharing: Twin Puzzles Separated at Birth'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=5113