This paper presents empirical evidence against the popular perception that macro volatility is exogenous. We obtain tax … effects on macro volatility, explicitly modeling the unobserved variance process. We find a strong empirical link between … taxes and output volatility. Accounting for non-stationarity of taxes and output volatility, we find empirical evidence of a …

contrast to standard portfolio theory for small exporters, is robust to a wide array of specifications and controls. Our …-run demand shocks. In this setup, the volatility of a firm's exports depends not only on the diversification of its destination … destinations makes the firm more likely to export occasionally to some markets, thereby raising volatility. These results cast …

According to empirical studies, the life cycle of labor supply volatility exhibits a U-shaped pattern. This may lead to … the conclusion that demographic change induces a drop in output volatility. We present an overlapping generations model … that replicates the empirically observed pattern and study the impact of demographic transition on output volatility. We …

prices react more to news in downturns than in upturns, implying higher volatility in downturns and negatively skewed returns …

volatility of macroeconomic variables. Such identification approach allows us to simultaneously address two major questions in …

offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume … has a pro-offshoring effect. And 2), under this same condition, offshoring increases volatility in domestic employment of … offshoring firms and the volatility of offshore employment of these same firms is larger than volatility of domestic employment …

data properties. In particular, it is shown that changes in the volatility of the shocks can be used for identification …

estimation windows. It develops theoretical results for random walks when their drift and/or volatility are subject to one or …

previous work to simultaneously include both leakage and volatility. Motivated by discussions on how to reform carbon markets …