This paper examines the potential influence of changing volatility in stock market prices on the level of stock market … prices. It demonstrates that volatility is only weakly serially correlated, implying that shocks to volatility do not persist …. These shocks can therefore have only a small impact on stockmarket prices, since changes in volatility affect expected …

We create a newspaper-based Equity Market Volatility (EMV) tracker that moves with the VIX and with the realized … volatility of returns on the S&P 500. Parsing the underlying text, we find that 72 percent of EMV articles discuss the … Macroeconomic Outlook, and 44 percent discuss Commodity Markets. Policy news is another major source of volatility: 35 percent of …

) levels of volatility. These results provide a novel perspective on both the equity risk premium and excess volatility puzzles …

role for credit growth (beyond its role in constructing the inflation forecast) would reduce the volatility of output and …

introduce a model for asset return dynamics with a drift component, a volatility component and mutually exciting jumps known as …

help to explain the enormous counter-cyclical volatility of aggregate risk compensation in financial markets. To answer …

Data show that better creditor protection is correlated across countries with lower average stock market volatility …

mean and volatility of aggregate consumption growth, by a representative agent with a high elasticity of intertemporal … increasing the persistence of volatility fluctuations and their impact on stock prices. This calibration fits the predictive … power of stock prices for future consumption volatility, but implies much greater predictive power of stock prices for …

According to conventional wisdom, annualized volatility of stock returns is lower when computed over long horizons than …