volatility and (the lack of) persistence implies that when one excludes volatile items relevant information is likely to be … volatility and persistence. The evidence shows that such measures far outperform those based on either volatility or persistence …

This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of the commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well … of trade growth enhances real output per capita, volatility exerts a negative impact on economic growth operating mainly … trade volatility offset the positive impact of commodity booms; and export diversification of primary commodity abundant …

This paper studies the volatility of commodity prices on the basis of a large dataset of monthly prices observed in … evidence does not actually attempt to measure the volatility of prices of individual goods or commodities. Rather the … literature tends to focus on trends in the evolution and volatility of ratios of price indexes composed of multiple commodities …

fluctuations in real commodity prices. Increased exchange rate volatility calls for a better understanding of these relations. To …

We examine the relationship between South African Rand and gold price volatility using monthly data for the period 1980 … volatility but the causality runs the other way around for the post-liberalization period. These findings suggest that gold price … volatility plays a key role in explaining both the excessive exchange rate volatility and current disproportionate share of …

secular trend and the short run volatility. To do so, we employ 25 series, some of them starting as far back as 1650 and … investigating the dynamics of the volatility of the 25 relative primary commodity prices also allowing for endogenous multiple … breaks. We describe the often time-varying volatility in commodity prices and show that it has increased in recent years …