&D investment and productivity growth are more negatively correlated with sales volatility in more credit constrained firms. …

market price of risk, the risk free rate, the bond prices at dierent maturities, the stock price and volatility as well as …

We propose a tractable framework for quantifying the impact of fire sales on the volatility and correlations of asset … returns and provide a quantitative explanation for spikes in volatility and correlations observed during liquidation of large …

with limited memory, then there are rationally formed expectations equilibria exhibiting an excess volatility that no … one from a positive viewpoint, this result suggests that the possibility of excess volatility as an equilibrium phenomenon …

We decompose volatility of a stock market index both in time and scale using wavelet filters and design a probabilistic …

This paper studies empirically the link between remittances and growth volatility by examining the impact of … of moment (GMM) technique for a sample of 63 countries over the 1980-2004 period. The volatility of terms of trade and … inflation is used to proxy for real and monetary volatility, respectively. The results show that the impact of remittances on …

This paper investigates the relationship between trust and macroeconomic volatility. In a cross section of countries … changes in inherited trust over the XXth century to show that increasing trust also decreases volatility across time. Thus … reduces investment volatility but not public expenditure volatility. …

volatility. It identifies a new channel - the "asymmetric information" channel - through which aid volatility is costly for … specifications and econometric methods, and developing new yearly estimates of aid volatility, I show that (i) introducing more … information increases aid efficiency, that (ii) the negative impact of aid volatility on aid efficiency vanishes once one controls …

After years of low macroeconomic volatility since the early eighties, well documented and referred to as the Great … countries. This Great Recession period was characterized by a sharp apparent increase in output volatility. In this paper we … evaluate whether this sudden event is likely to be temporary. Whether or not this new volatility regime is likely to persist …