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 …

The uncertainty of U.S. core inflation, measured by the stochastic volatility of forecast errors, has soared to a level …

This paper proposes a Skewed Stochastic Volatility (SSV) model to model time varying, asymmetric forecast distributions … volatility and asymmetric measurement densities. Estimating the model based on US data yields conditional forecast densities that …

Cholesky multivariate stochastic volatility model.It establishes that systematically different dynamic restrictions are imposed … divergent when volatility clusters idiosyncratically.It is illustrated that this property is important for empirical …