In this paper, we investigate the spillover of the financial-market volatility arising from the East-asian crisis on … increased volatility should be kept in perspective: US-market and own-market developments generally had much greater influence … on prices and volatility than the shocks originating in the Asian crisis economies. Importantly, the financial-market …

The decline in output volatility in a number of countries over the past few decades has been well-documented, though … volatility. We suggest that reforms in product and labour markets can reduce volatility of aggregate output by encouraging … studies, we include direct measures of product market regulations and monetary policy regimes as indicators of structural …