Financial markets are central to the transmission of uncertainty shocks. This paper documents a new aspect of the … interaction between the two by showing that uncertainty shocks have radically different macroeconomic implications depending on … uncertainty is proxied by the (unobserved) volatility of the structural shocks, and a regime change occurs whenever credit …

This paper considers the meaning of domestic and international systemic risk. It examines scenarios that have been … adduced as creating systemic risk both within countries and among them. It distinguishes between the concepts of real and … pseudo-systemic risk. We examine the history of episodes commonly viewed either as financial crises or as evidencing systemic …

This paper considers the meaning of domestic and international systemic risk. It examines scenarios that have been … adduced as creating systemic risk both within countries and among them. It distinguishes between the concepts of real and … pseudo-systemic risk. We examine the history of episodes commonly viewed either as financial crises or as evidencing systemic …