, volatility, and spikes. While price trends are important in the long term, volatility and spikes are more important in the short … volatility. An assessment of the costs of price volatility has shown that the existing literature follows a conventional marginal …. Measuring and estimating the cost of food price volatility should factor in ongoing processes such as economic growth and …

volatility of aid on economic growth, controlling for the level of aid. A four-year panel analysis is conducted encompassing 155 … countries over the period 1966-2001. We find that once the volatility of aid is controlled for, aid has a positive impact on … economic growth. Correspondingly, volatility of aid flows is found to be negatively related to growth. We found no significant …

mean and volatility. The endogenous structural breakpoint unit root test, ARDL model, and alternative volatility models … price while the volatility of global fertilizer prices and crude oil price from March to December 2008 are higher than in …

This paper empirically analyzes the political, institutional and economic sources of public deficit volatility. Using … show that higher public deficit volatility is typically associated with higher levels of political instability and less … democracy. In addition, public deficit volatility tends to be magnified for small countries, in the outcome of hyper …

More financially developed countries show lower volatility of industrial output. Volatility is particularly reduced in … industries that are more financially dependent. Most of the reduction is in idiosyncratic volatility. Systematic volatility is …

and supervisory arrangements adequate when market volatility increases and financial institutions come under stress? In …

A new heteroskedastic hedonic regression model is suggested which takes into account time-varying volatility and is … expectation. The art price index is a smooth function of time and has a variability that is comparable to the volatility of stock …