mid-1980s, in contrast to the simultaneous volatility decline of most aggregates, including overall hours and employment … the skill premium, it is interesting to check its short-run implications for employment volatility. The numerical results … DSGE models' implications for overall labor market' volatility. …

volatility on foreign exchange markets. Starting point is the market participant's microeconomic investment decision, which is … trading volume and volatility on foreign exchange markets. We apply various two-country-models with representative market …

into volatility persistence in stock returns. In part two, I show that the introduction of continuous trading on the WSE is … volatility on days after limit hits and positive autocorrelation in stock returns. I do not find significant advantages of this …

, which includes secular changes in the economic structure and a substantial reduction of output volatility. We find two … robust structural breaks in volatility at the end of WWII and in the mid-eighties, showing that the GM still holds in the … longer perspective. Furthermore, we show that GM volatility reduction is only linked to expansion features. We also date the …

volatile in emerging markets. Therefore, when a positive productivity shock hits the economy, the larger response of … are quantitatively important. The reason is that a positive productivity shock signals even higher productivity in the …

Farm-level Census data and county-level income shock data reveal that past unexpected income shocks affect the rate of …