This paper addresses the issue of whether financial deepening has promoted interregional risk sharing in China. It first examines the evolution pattern of overall risk sharing across China as a whole and in its coastal, central and western areas in different periods. The level of risk sharing...

This paper decomposes consumption risk sharing among provinces in China over the 1980-2007 period. We find that 9.4 percent of the shocks to gross provincial product are smoothed by the interprovincial fiscal transfer system. This system also cushions a relatively large fraction of the...