account for asymmetries of return and volatility spillover effects from the US equity market into Canada and Mexico. Unlike … previous research, we model the conditional volatility of the returns in each of the three markets using the asymmetric power … model of Ding, Granger and Engle (1993). The empirical results indicate that volatility spillover effects, but not mean …

Stylized facts suggest that output volatility in OECD countries has declined in recent years. However, the causes and … structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the real output process in Germany can be detected. We report evidence … that output volatility has declined in Germany. Yet, this decline in output volatility is not as clear-cut as it is in the …

sector, and labor market flexibility. A clear-cut importance of exchange rate volatility cannot be found. Some conclusions …