01786cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF011347 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781463922634 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Rungcharoenkitkul, Phurichai. Risk Sharing and Financial Contagion in Asia : An Asset Price Perspective / Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011. 1 online resource (41 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper assesses financial integration in Asia in terms of risk-sharing benefit versus financial-contagion cost. We construct a new measure of risk sharing based on a term structure model, which allows identification of realized stochastic discount factors. Risk sharing is low in Asia, and varies across time and countries, whereas contagion risks are more significant intra-regionally, and relatively stable over the past decade. An overall tradeoff exists between risk sharing and contagion, but the terms of tradeoffs vary across countries, depending on relative economic fluctuations and inflation differentials. Asia, therefore, can potentially enhance risk sharing without raising contagion risk. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/242 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2011/242/001.2011.issue-242-en.xml IMF e-Library