Engel and Rogers (1996) find that crossing the US-Canada border can considerably raise relative price volatility and … that exchange rate fluctuations explain about one-third of the volatility increase. In re-evaluating the border effect …, this study shows that cross-country heterogeneity in price volatility can lead to significant bias in measuring the border …

exert a volatility amplifying effect, depending on the currency of denomination and the cyclicality of the borrower … consumption volatility of low- and middle-income countries. On constructing the debt-weighted effective exchange rates, we examine …

dynamics of oil price volatility by examining interactions between oil market and exchange rate in selected MENA countries …) to examine the presence of volatility spillover between oil prices and exchange rates return series. The econometric … rates, and ii) there is significant evidence of volatility spillovers from oil markets to exchange rate markets in the …

smooth their domestic consumption; however, it can also amplify volatility in consumption, depending on the currency in which … external debt portfolios, exchange rate cyclicality, and volatility in consumption of low- and middle-income countries. Since …

1996-2007, we show that firms with higher export intensity exhibit a lower volatility of skilled labor demand relative to … the volatility of unskilled labor demand. Our identification strategy is based on an instrumental variable approach to … provide evidence on the causal effect of the export performance of the firm on the volatility of employment of different …

This paper compares volatility forecasts for the RTS Index (the main index for the Russian stock market) generated by … alternative models, specifically option-implied volatility forecasts based on the Black-Scholes model, ARCH/GARCH-type model … information content). Various forecasting performance tests are carried out which suggest that both implied volatility and …

, and (iii) employment protection – shape fiscal multipliers and output volatility. Our theoretical model highlights that … more stringent labor market institutions attenuate both fiscal spending multipliers and macroeconomic volatility. This is …