World income components: Measuring and exploiting risk-sharing opportunities

American Economic Review

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1031-1054

  Athanasoulis, Stefano G ^a   Shiller, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0009942666     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.4.1031     Document Type: Article

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