The aim of this paper is twofold: to investigate how the information content of implied volatility varies according to … moneyness and option type and to compare option-based forecasts with historical volatility. The different information content of … implied volatility is examined for the most liquid at-the-money and out-of-the-money options: put (call) options for strikes …

This paper compares the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Western Germany using a … stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth. Reallocative shocks have no effect on the natural rate of unemployment … the rise in trend unemployment in Germany in the 1980s or for a possible rise in trend unemployment in the United States …

In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given …. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … volatility measures and four country groups. In autoregressive models, a significant disturbing impact of volatility can be found …