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. …

) analysis. Such restrictions are typically just-identifying but can be checked by utilizing changes in volatility. This paper … reviews and contrasts the volatility models that have been used for this purpose. Three main approaches have been used …, exogenously generated changes in the unconditional residual covariance matrix, changing volatility modelled by a Markov switching …

market indices are analysed: DAX30 (Germany), FTSE100 (UK), CAC40 (France), FTSE MIB40 (Italy) and IBEX35 (Spain). In all …

dynamics of oil price volatility by examining interactions between oil market and exchange rate in selected MENA countries …) to examine the presence of volatility spillover between oil prices and exchange rates return series. The econometric … rates, and ii) there is significant evidence of volatility spillovers from oil markets to exchange rate markets in the …

first clarify the logic of applying cointegration methods to the RERI and propose an alternative way of testing the …

Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender …-run relation between expenditures and revenues in a cointegration analysis within each Land. The results provide evidence against …

The view that high unemployment in West Germany and other European countries is caused by a path dependence effect - or … is argued that in a cointegration framework it is reasonable to define hysteresis as the absence of weak exogeneity of … the explanatory variables. Building on a cointeg ration model of the employment rate in West Germany, I find only weak …

between the capitalization of the banking sector and bank loans using panel cointegration models. We study the evolution of …. -- bank capital ; business loans ; cointegration …