financial speculation affect food price volatility? The researchers who contributed to The Economics of Food Price Volatility … volatility, as well as the effects of various public policies in affecting this volatility. The chapters include studies of the … effects of weather-related disruptions in supply. The findings shed light on the way price volatility affects the welfare of …

volatility reduction in equity prices, investment, and external imbalances would be sizable. In the presence of cross …

This paper examines the impact of trade costs on real exchange rate volatility. The channel is examined by constructing … higher trade costs result in a larger nontradable sector. This, in turn, leads to higher real exchange rate volatility. We …

This paper examines the evidence for the common assertion that the volatility of emerging stock markets has increased … volatility in recent years; indeed, it appears that volatility may have tended to fall rather than rise on average. The paper … should lead to a reduction in return volatility as risk is spread among a larger number of investors …