volatility, it would actually increase domestic price volatility in developing countries, largely by restricting imports when … negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. It includes both price (P-SSM) and quantity-triggered measures (Q-SSM). This paper …, and boost mean domestic production in the SSM regions. However, rather than insulating countries that use it from price …

of income. Yet some in this debate have argued that, given the extreme volatility in agricultural commodity markets, the … additional price and poverty impacts due to trade liberalization might well be undetectable. This paper formally tests this … the comparison of two sets of price and poverty distributions. The first originates solely from the inherent variability …

significant efforts, several structural sources of volatility remain, and new ones have emerged as a result of the new and …

positively linked to the conditional volatility of future real activity and of equity returns. The joint information in sectoral …

The article deals with a typical phenomenon of financial time series - volatility. These time series usually embody … intermittent periods of relative "calm" and quite high variability. A volatility modelling of time series is made with the help of … special econometric volatility models which characterize the so-called conditional heteroskedasticity. The goal of this paper …

This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well as on …. We argue that volatility, rather than abundance per se, drives the "resource curse" paradox and also investigate …, volatility exerts a negative impact on economic growth operating mainly through lower accumulation of physical capital. Our …

to help explain Uruguay’s cyclical volatility by comparing its evolution with New Zealand. We find that a long cycle … (Kuznets’ like) accounts for Uruguay’s greater volatility relative to New Zealand. We argue that the characteristics of the … cyclical volatility that Uruguay exhibits relative to New Zealand. Following Fanelli (2006), we claim that the relation between …

volatility is an important variable for explaining saving and investment dynamics. Our results indicate that as permanent … volatility increases, both investment and saving increase until a threshold at which point investment plummets while … precautionary saving surges. In contrast, with larger volatility of temporary shocks, investment falls and precautionary saving …