This paper examines the effects of time-varying volatility on welfare. I construct a tractable endogenous growth model with recursive preferences, stochastic volatility, and capital adjustment costs. The model shows that a rise in volatility can decelerate growth in the absence of any level...

The inflation targeting policy, which is adopted in a lot of countries in recent years, has been introduced with a band target in most countries. However, in the many theoretical analysis, the target of the inflation rate is assumed to be a point, and the studies that have treated the following...