What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the idea that …

combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …

proposed. The expression for a modified likelihood function is obtained for estimation and inference in a fixed-T context …. Using a bias-corrected likelihood approach makes it possible to reduce the estimation bias to a term of order 1/T². The …

achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs … de labor market volatility. This increased volatility is partially reverted when limitations in the duration and number … explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated OECD labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-à-vis the …

highlights the fact that high exchange rate volatility may as well signal high costs for labor markets. The impact of exchange … rate volatility on labor markets in the CEECs is analyzed, finding that volatility vis?- vis the euro significantly lowers … employment growth. Hence, the elimination of exchange rate volatility could be considered as a substitute for a removal of …

patterns across countries and markets: policies that reduce the dispersion and volatility of labor income appear to be more …

time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings over time. Whereas the further is a positive … outcome, more volatility as such can be seen as negative. We use Austrian data from tax authorities to find out how population …

volatility significantly increases the mortgage delinquency risk. This pattern even holds for borrowers with higher …-income profiles if volatility in income is high enough. From this result we can draw the following conclusions: i) mortgage protection …

In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given …. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … volatility measures and four country groups. In autoregressive models, a significant disturbing impact of volatility can be found …