This paper presents a selective survey of volatility topics, with emphasis on the measurement of volatility and a discussion of some of the most important time series models commonly employed in its modelling. In particular, the paper details the long memory characteristics of volatility, and...

During the onset of a very severe financial and economic crisis in 2008, the federal funds rate reached the zero lower bound (ZLB). With this primary monetary policy tool therefore rendered ineffective, in November 2008 the Federal Reserve started to use its balance sheet as an alternative...

The 2008-2009 financial crisis was the most serious shock to the U.S. financial system since the Great Depression of the 1930s. A number of large financial institutions failed during the crisis. Many institutions that survived did so only because of extraordinary actions undertaken by company...

In their 2010 comment (which we refer to as CS10), Cogley and Sbordone argue that: (i ) our estimates are not entirely closed form, and hence are arbitrary; (ii ) we cannot guarantee that our estimates are valid, while their estimates (Cogley and Sbordone 2008, henceforth CS08) always are; and...

Standard approaches to the estimation and testing of conditional CAPM models with time-varying or random beta have ignored the potential panel nature of financial data. We test for whether or not homogeneity restrictions on the time-variation component of multifactor betas and on the slope...

We build a summary measure of labor market pressure that captures the common movement among a variety of labor market series. Obtained as the labor market series' first principal component, this measure explains a large portion of the variability of the underlying series. For this reason, it is...