Consumption Volatility and Financial Openness

Serkan Yener (1) , Claudia M. Buch (2)

1 Statistics
2 Economics

Economic theory predicts that the integration of financial markets lowers the volatility of consumption. In this paper, we study long-term trends in the consumption volatility of the G7 countries. Using different measures of financial openness, we find evidence that greater financial openness has been associated with lower consumption volatility. However, volatility of consumption relative to output has not declined.

Mots clés: Social Sciences & Humanities

Serkan Yener, Claudia M. Buch. Consumption Volatility and Financial Openness. Applied Economics, 2009, 42 (28), pp.3635. ⟨10.1080/00036840802260916⟩. ⟨hal-00582197⟩