We study the annual growth rates of six macroeconomic variables: public debt, public health expenditures, exports of goods, government consumption expenditures, total exports of goods and services, and total imports of goods and services. For each variable, we find (i) that the distribution of...

We study the econometric properties of dynamic risk parity, which volatility scales to equalise risk through time using the precision process, the inverse of the time-varying volatility. A particular focus is on the impact of the Sharpe ratio. We give necessary and suffcient conditions that...

Sectors with increasing returns to scale have been shown to amplify business cycles exhibiting more volatility than others. Our hypothesis is that this volatility could be a cause of the rdquo;'jobless recoveryquot; suggesting policies for employment generation. To test this hypothesis we...