We study the impact of a minimum wage on business cycle volatility, depending upon its coverage and adjustment … affecting 20 percent of employees would amplify output volatility by 0.2 percent to 9.2 percent, and employment volatility by ?1 ….2 percent to 7.8 percent. A fixed wage or indexation to consumption price inflation increases volatility most. Indexation to …

This paper examines the impact of trade costs on real exchange rate volatility. We incorporate a multi … exchange rate volatility depends on relative technological differences and trade costs. These differences highlight a new … volatility. We then test the importance of this channel using a large panel of cross-country data over 1970-97, and find strong …

The easing of controls on interest rates has led to higher interest rate volatility in India. Hence, there is a need to … assess the interest rate risk carried by a sample of Indian banks in March 2002. We find evidence of substantial exposure to …

increase in protectionist pressures, and the disappointing performance of world trade, renewed concern has been expressed about …

systemic financial risk. Benefits, such as enhanced investment and consumption smoothing, tend to be greater for countries … national level, robust macroprudential policy frameworks focused on mitigating systemic risk can improve the capacity of a … and to reduce systemic financial risk stemming from such flows (CFM/MPMs), and thereby ensure the appropriate application …

This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of the commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well … (CPMG) methodology of Pesaran et al. (1999) for estimation. The latter takes account of cross-country heterogeneity and … of trade growth enhances real output per capita, volatility exerts a negative impact on economic growth operating mainly …