Industrial sectors producing income-elastic products can grow rapidly but are highly vulnerable to fluctuations in the world economy. Policymakers need to take into account this trade-off between output and employment growth over the longer term and volatility in the short to medium term. We...

We use bivariate ARCH specifications to model the conditional mean and stock price volatilityfor 56 takeover bids from January 1985 and July 1994. Using daily data from one year prior to thetakeover announcement until the conclusion of the bid, we allow for two-way interaction in bothmoments...