capacities. We study a non stochastic CRS endogenous growth model where public expenditure is an input in the production process … effective tax rate. We show how persistent differences in growth rates across countries could stem from differential public … welfare and the growth rate. With outstanding public debt, the optimal fiscal policy should keep the debt-to-GDP ratio …

episodes of sustained rapid rise in equity prices in the 19th and 20th Centuries, and then assess the growth of real output … rapid real growth and productivity advance, suggesting that booms are driven at least partly by fundamentals. We find no … growth were above average …

The large asset price jumps that took place during 2008 and 2009 disrupted volatility derivatives markets and caused …

Shocks to equity options' ATM implied volatility (ATMIV) are followed by persistently lower short-term rates. Shocks to …

finance higher investment and growth; (ii) insure against aggregate shocks and reduce consumption volatility; and (iii … capital flows, investment, and growth; (ii) large capital inflows and higher investment and growth; or (iii) volatile capital …

high volatility are followed by periods of low volatility. For instance, the turbulent 1970s were followed by the much more … tranquil times of the great moderation from 1984 to 2007. Modeling these movements in volatility is important to understand the … different mechanisms proposed in the literature to generate changes in volatility similar to the ones observed in the data …

-series variation of conditional volatility and skewness of the swap rate distributions implied by the swaption cube. We then develop … and estimate a dynamic term structure model that is consistent with these stylized facts, and use it to infer volatility … these distributions. In particular, we find that volatility, volatility risk premia, skewness, and skewness risk premia are …