-oriented businesses. The VIX index (Chicago Board Options Exchange market volatility index) was once employed as a barometer of the …

Since the demise of the Bretton Woods system, the yen has seen several episodes of strong appreciation, including in … been associated with "expensive yen recessions" resulting from negative effects on exports; since the late 1980s, the … strong yen has also raised concerns about a de-industrialisation of the Japanese economy. Against this backdrop, the paper …

paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …

This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … occurred in any of the world's four major currencies since the collapse of Bretton Woods. Exploiting this variation, the paper … intermediate imports. This provides new direct evidence that, in the modern world of global value chains, it is changes in the cost …

We examine the Exchange Rate Volatility (ERV) response to the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) shocks from a panel VAR …