monetary disturbances as shocks to central bank gold demand. Based on a monetary DSGE model, the world gold reserve ratio (the …I study whether monetary gold hoarding was the main cause of the Great Depression in a structural VAR analysis. The … macroeconometric literature, the paper i) uses a newly-assembled monthly data set of the interwar world economy, and ii) models …

differences of opinion is left, and hence volatility is decreased. …

that a rise in conditional consumption growth volatility relative to the rest of the world reduces the foreign exchange … relation between the volatility in consumption growth and the level of real interest rates relative to the world interest rate …We construct a measure of the short-term world interest rate using principal component analysis. Drawing on real …

Empirical evidence indicates that high oil price volatility has a dampening effect on output in countries that import … of commodity price volatility in commodity exporting countries accounting for both oil and non-oil commodities. To that … significant negative impact of price volatility on real output for oil exporters. Our results for exporters of other commodities …

average higher volatility of output growth (1) accumulated higher external assets in the long-run and (2) experienced more …