and the volatility of the main capital flows ? foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and foreign bank … provides an analysis on the magnitude of remittances, their volatility, and their relationship to other capital flows. Moreover …

, one potentially adverse effect of globalization is the possibility that business cycle volatility might increase. Rapid … to unstable international capital flows. At the same time, business cycle volatility in OECD countries seems to have been …

, one potentially adverse effect of globalization is the possibility that business cycle volatility might increase. Rapid … to unstable international capital flows. At the same time, business cycle volatility in OECD countries seems to have been …

effect of macroeconomic volatility, the openness of the banking system, and banking regulations on bank risks. Our measure of … bank risk is the volatility of banks’ pretax profits. We find that macroeconomic volatility increases banks’ profit … volatility and that international openness of the banking system lowers bank risk. We find no impact of banking regulation on …

Weakening bargaining power of unions and the increasing integration of the world economy may affect the volatility of … capital and labor incomes. This paper documents and explains changes in income volatility. Using a theoretical framework which … builds distribution risk into a real business cycle model, hypotheses on the determinants of the relative volatility of …

Stylized facts suggest that output volatility in OECD countries has declined in recent years. However, the causes and … structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the real output process in Germany can be detected. We report evidence … that output volatility has declined in Germany. Yet, this decline in output volatility is not as clear-cut as it is in the …