-varying uncertainty (i.e., volatility) about future economic prospects drive asset prices. These two channels of economic risks can … account for the risk premia and asset price fluctuations. In addition, the model can empirically account for the cross …

stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility …The VIX, the stock market option-based implied volatility, strongly co-moves with measures of the monetary policy … ("uncertainty"), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk aversion and uncertainty, with the former effect being …

formulate and examine precise and separate measures of return spillovers and volatility spillovers. Our framework facilitates … evidence of divergent behavior in the dynamics of return spillovers vs. volatility spillovers: Return spillovers display a … gently increasing trend but no bursts, whereas volatility spillovers display no trend but clear bursts …

Although it has been well established that financial volatility is related to news and macroeconomic shocks, there has … consol returns since 1729 and identify a greater-than-50% decline in volatility from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 … until the First World War. News events and macroeconomic variables cannot account for this extended period of reduced …

risk sharing is better than you think. Conversely, if risks really are not shared internationally, exchange rates should … vary more than they do -- exchange rates are much too smooth. We calculate an index of international risk sharing that … formalizes this intuition in the context of both complete and incomplete capital markets. Our results suggest that risk sharing …

relative risk aversion. High stock-price volatility can be explained by incorporating time-varying long-run growth rates and …

We reconsider the empirical links between volatility and growth between 1970 and 2007. There is a strong and … their economies. The amount of volatility driven by these external factors is highly correlated, cross-sectionally, with the … overall amount of volatility in GDP growth. There is also a strong correlation between a country's average growth rate and the …

data on stock market levels and volatility as proxies for the first and second moments of business conditions. We then use …