variability. We show that financial liberalization is mostly associated with lower consumption growth volatility. Our results are … volatility after equity market openings. The results hold for both total and idiosyncratic consumption growth volatility. We also … find that financial liberalizations are associated with declines in the ratio of consumption growth volatility to GDP …

has focused on average returns, we analyze the volatility of the returns in emerging equity markets. We characterize the … time-series of volatility in emerging markets and explore the distributional foundations of the variance process. Of … particular interest is evidence of asymmetries in volatility and the evolution of the variance process after periods of capital …

tackle several measurement issues assessing a plethora of state-of-the-art volatility forecasting models. We then examine the …

In a sample of 110 countries over the period 1960-2009, we document a positive relation between the volatility and … with recent theories of financial frictions. The positive relation between volatility and skewness in the cross-section is …

We ask whether stock returns in France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US are predictable by three instruments: the …