, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth in the poor periphery. This paper assess these de …-industrialization and volatility forces between 1782 and 1913 during the Great Divergence. First, it argues that the new economic order had …-reducing terms of trade volatility was the other. Between 1820 and 1870, terms of trade volatility was much greater in the poor …

Commodity price volatility can create concern for central bank policy-makers. Recent commodity prices peaked in the … volatility are crucial for the conduct of monetary policy (Svensson, 2005). Using an autoregressive moving average with an … series to identify volatility spillovers between monetary policies and commodity price index. The findings show that the …

type of shock driving prices of the various types of commodities and relate these differences to commodity types which …

activity. However, using U.S. data since 1950 we show that the macroeconomic response pattern to stock market volatility shocks … decomposition for consumption growth shows that the contribution of stock market volatility becomes negligible as we go from earlier … of stock market volatility. -- Dow Jones index ; stock market volatility shocks ; economic growth ; consumption …