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 …

GARCH models are commonly used as latent processes in econometrics, financial economics and macroeconomics. Yet no …

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 …

This paper estimates the implied stochastic process of the volatility of the Swiss market index (SMI) from the prices … of options written on it. A GARCH(1,1) model is shown to be a good parameterization of the process. Then, using the GARCH … option pricing model of Duan (1991), the implied volatility process is estimated by a simulation minimization method from …