Home bias and international risk sharing: Twin puzzles separated at birth

Journal of International Money and Finance

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 587-605

  Sørensen, Bent E ^a,b   Wu, Yi Tsung ^c   Yosha, Oved ^d   Zhu, Yu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Consumption smoothing; Income smoothing; International portfolio diversification

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248995043     PISSN: 02615606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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