We review evidence on the Great Moderation together with evidence about volatility trends at the micro level to develop … a potential explanation for the decline in aggregate volatility since the 1980s and its consequences. The key elements … are declines in firm-level volatility and aggregate volatility—most dramatically in the durable goods sector—but with no …

neglected perspective that the vulnerabilities associated with a given public debt/GDP increase with the future volatility of …

that a rise in conditional consumption growth volatility relative to the rest of the world reduces the foreign exchange … relation between the volatility in consumption growth and the level of real interest rates relative to the world interest rate … rates and macroeconomic volatility, on the one hand, and macroeconomic volatility and the net foreign asset position, on the …