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 …

that the volatility of exchange rates has declined after the imposition of the URR while the volatility of capital flows …

From a theoretical point of view, greater trade openness affects firm-level volatility by changing the exposure and the … link between openness and volatility. Using two novel datasets on German firms, we analyze the evolution of firm …-level output volatility and the link between volatility and trade openness. We find that firm-level output volatility displays …

From a theoretical point of view, greater trade openness affects firm-level volatility by …

, 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 …