return correlations using weekly returns on futures markets and investigate the extent to which multivariate volatility …

volatility and economic activity assuming that both variables are driven by the same set of unobserved common factors and that … these factors affect volatility and economic activity with a time lag of at least a quarter. Under these assumptions, the … paper analytically shows that volatility is forward looking and that the output equation of a typical VAR estimated in the …

. We develop a multi-country version of the Lucas tree model with time-varying volatility and show that in addition to … the cross country variations of realized volatility. Using this theoretical insight, two common factors, a "real" and a …-specific innovations to real GDP growth and realized stock market volatility. We then quantify the absolute and the relative importance of …