International risk-sharing and currency
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Etienne B. Yehoue
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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This paper explores income and consumption smoothing patterns among the member countries of each of the CFA zones-the CEMAC 1 and the WAEMU 2 -during the period 1980-2005. I find that for the CEMAC, about 24 per cent of shocks to GDP are smoothed through the standard channels (i.e. capital market, c