Regional redistribution and stabilization by the center in Canada, France, the UK and the US:: A reassessment and new tests

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The Eurozone and Political Economic Institutions (2016, background): “Again, the contrast with the United States is stark; the US federal tax and transfer system provides 10--20% stabilization in the face of state-specific aggregate demand shocks (Melitz & Zumer 2002).”
The Euro Area Crisis: Need for a Supranational Fiscal Risk Sharing Mechanism? (2013, unknown): “Mélitz and Zumer (1999, 2002) analyze regional data for the U.K. and Italy, and find that the degree of risk sharing provided by capital markets is similar to the U.S., while risk sharing operating through the public sector and credit markets is almost null.”
Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis: US vs. Europe (2012, unknown): “More recent contributions include Fatàs and Mihov (2001), Blanchard and Perotti (2002), Mélitz and Zumer (2002).”
On the optimal design of disaster insurance in a federation (2011, unknown): “Melitz and Zumer (2002) summarize previous results and provide a well-founded estimate that central government redistribution offsets about 10–20% of shocks to personal income in four countries.4 Our analysis points to a somewhat different shock—natural disasters—but the similarity is clear.”