An unresolved issue in international macroeconomics is the apparent lack of risk-sharing across countries, which contradicts the prediction of models based on the assumption of complete markets. We assess the importance of financial frictions in this issue by constructing an incomplete market...

Researchers have documented extensive empirical evidence on both risk sharing across countries and the uncovered interest rate parity (UIP) condition. This paper involves investigating the empirical implications of imperfectly integrated financial markets resulting from the two phenomena. Under...