develop an extended Factor Augmented VAR model that simultaneously allows the estimation of a measure of uncertainty and its …

We present a self-consistent model for explosive financial bubbles, which combines a mean-reverting volatility process … started at least 4 years earlier. We confirm the validity and universality of the volatility-confined LPPL model on seven …

In this paper, I study the drop of real GDP volatility which has been observed in the United States during the postwar … disaggregated only up to 10 sectors. Blanchard and Simon (2001) come to the same result. Using a new estimation method and more … this in order to get, for each observation period, an estimation of the covariance matrix of the sectoral growth rates …

capturing interest rate risk. The so-called Stochastic Volatility Nelson-Siegel (SVNS) model allows for stochastic volatility in … evidence for time-varying volatility in the yield factors. This is mostly true for the level and slope volatility revealing … also the highest persistence. It turns out that the inclusion of stochastic volatility improves the model's goodness …

risk in the mortgage market raises the default rate and spreads to the rest of the economy, creating a recession. In our … model two shocks are well suited to replicate the subprime crisis and the Great Recession: the mortgage risk shock and the …