This article examines the volatility dependence between the crude oil price and four US dollar exchange rates using … both fractional cointegration and copula techniques. The former exploits the long memory behavior of the volatility … to explore whether the volatility of the markets are linked in the short run. The cointegration results conclude in favor …

The purpose of this paper is to formalize the choices of market entry strategy (Export Vs Greenfield investment Vs Cross … export credible threats. If greenfield FDI is viable, entering firm prefers acquiring the low-productivity firm, when the …, there is always the ambiguity between the foreign firm's preference and the government's judgment. If export entry option is …

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 …

not export to many more countries, but they export to more distant ones. This comes with a greater geographic diversi … cation of their aggregate exports. In contrast to low-end export(er)s, we find that distance has almost no eff ect on high …-end variety export(er)s. We also show that high-end export(er)s are more sensitive to the average income of the destination …

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. …