Did adoption of the gold standard exacerbate or diminish macroeconomic volatility? Supporters thought so, critics … thought not, and theory offers ambiguous messages. A hard exchange-rate regime such as the gold standard might limit monetary … shocks if it ties the hands of policy makers. But any decision to forsake exchange-rate flexibility might compromise shock …

The transmission of correlated economic disturbances is analyzed in a three-country world, where two countries have no …

monetary policy shocks. This result is puzzling. Economic theory suggests that the overshooting should occur immediately after … the shock, not with a delay. This paper uses a ?new open economy macroeconomics? model with pricing-to-market to analyze …

supplying liquidity to asynchronously arriving investors. Empirically, twelve years of daily New York Stock Exchange … intermediary data reveal economically large price pressures. A $100,000 inventory shock causes an average price pressure of 0 ….28% with a half-life of 0.92 days. Price pressure causes average transitory volatility in daily stock returns of 0.49%. Price …

This paper looks at the interplay of volatility and liquidity on the Euronext trading platform during the December 2 …-traded stocks on Euronext, we study the ex-ante liquidity vs volatility and ex-post liquidity vs volatility relationships to … ascertain if the high volatility led to decreases in liquidity and large trading costs. We show that the provision of liquidity …

Market analysts and central banks often use the implied volatility of FX options as an indicator of expected exchange … deviate the value of implied volatility from the exchange rate variability expected by the market. These biasing factors are … one month. However, implied volatility provides a biased estimate, and does not encompass the information included in …

that a rise in conditional consumption growth volatility relative to the rest of the world reduces the foreign exchange … relation between the volatility in consumption growth and the level of real interest rates relative to the world interest rate …We construct a measure of the short-term world interest rate using principal component analysis. Drawing on real …

finds that common shocks – key crisis events as well as changes to global liquidity and risk – have exerted a large effect …