, especially the excess volatility of consumption in SSA countries. Our results suggest a strong relationship between the weight of …

This article unearths the determinants of the volatility of aggregate and firm-level production proxied by output and … volatility. Similarly to their conclusions, I establish that firm volatility is not driven by a compositional bias in my sample …-level and aggregate level volatility due in part to the 2007 financial crisis. …

instruments to manage food price volatility. Many developing countries recently pursued price regulation policies, but the … policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the … be key factor influencing the degree of price volatility. Applied to trade policies, this consistency is defined by the …

-end varieties has two macroeconomic implications for countries. First, the sources of a country's aggregate exports volatility are …-speci c demand shocks, and thus their volatility on a given market. However, their lower sensitivity to distance allows for a … greater geographic diversi cation of their exports, which in turn reduces aggregate volatility through a portfolio e ect …

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. …