Poor countries are more volatile than rich countries, and we know this volatility impedes their growth. We also know … that commodity price volatility is a key source of those shocks. This paper explores commodity and manufactures price over … the past three centuries to answer three questions: Has commodity price volatility increased over time? The answer is no …

This paper studies the impact of aid volatility in a two-period model where production may occur with either a … modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined in a …-period contingency fund) financed through taxation. An increase in aid volatility is shown to raise the optimal contingency fund. But if …

This paper documents large cross-country differences in the long run volatility of the real exchange rate. In … exchange rate in industrial countries. The paper tests whether this difference in volatility can be explained by the fact that … the difference in RER volatility between developing and industrial countries. Results from ARCH estimations confirm that …

volatility, and discusses steps to facilitate the creation of these markets …

the correlation between volatility and investment in a set of developing countries. We uncover a statistically significant … negative correlation between various volatility measures and private investment, even when adding the standard control …. Indeed, public investment spending is positively correlated with some measures of volatility. We also use the new World Bank …

This study uncovers a statistically significant negative correlation between volatility and private investment over the … volatility measures related to domestic policies or to external factors. As the various volatility measures tend to be positively … correlated, we do not claim to identify a unique measure as the dominant source of volatility. Instead, we demonstrate that for a …

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 …