We show that volatility movements have first-order implications for consumption dynamics and asset prices. Volatility … news affects the stochastic discount factor and carries a separate risk premium. In the data, volatility risks are … aggregate wealth and the cross-sectional differences in risk premia. Estimation of our volatility risks based model yields an …

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

This paper shows that stock volatility increases during recessions and financial crises from 1834-1987. The evidence … stock volatility, I show that volatility increases after major financial crises. Moreover. stock volatility decreases and … can control stock volatility. The evidence supports the observation by Black [1976] that stock volatility increases after …

Recent critiques have demonstrated that existing attempts to account for the unemployment volatility puzzle of search … volatility of risk-free rates. We propose a model that is immune to these critiques and solves this puzzle by allowing for …

shocks using methods from the news shocks literature, the analysis finds that innovations in realized stock market volatility … economy. Moreover, investors have historically paid large premia to hedge shocks to realized but not implied volatility. A … model in which fundamental shocks are skewed left can match those facts. Aggregate volatility matters, but it is the …