This paper estimates the implied stochastic process of the volatility of the Swiss market index (SMI) from the prices … option pricing model of Duan (1991), the implied volatility process is estimated by a simulation minimization method from … option price data. We find the persistence of volatility shocks implied by options on the SMI to be very close to that …

lower the volatility of output growth. Technological complexity evolves endogenously in response to profit incentives. The … decline in volatility thus arises as a by-product of firms’ incentives to increase profits and is hence a likely outcome of … that for reasonable parameter values, the model can generate a decline in volatility with the level of development …

volatility into these four sources, quantify their contribution to aggregate volatility, and study how they relate to the stage …, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country-specific macroeconomic shocks falls … with the level of development. We argue that many theories linking volatility and development are not consistent with these …