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Risk-Taking, Global Diversification, and Growth

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  • Obstfeld, Maurice

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This paper develops a continuous-time stochastic model in which international risk-sharing can yield substantial welfare gains through its effect on expected consumption growth. The mechanism linking global diversification to growth is an attendant world portfolio shift from safe low-yield capital to riskier high-yield capital. The presence of these two types of capital captures the idea that growth depends on the availability of an ever-increasing array of specialized, hence inherently risky, production inputs. Calibration exercises using consumption and stock-market data imply that most countries reap large steady-state welfare gains from global financial integration. Copyright 1994 by American Economic Association.

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Volume (Year): 84 (1994)
Issue (Month): 5 (December)
Pages: 1310-1329

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  • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets
  • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General

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