than by GARCH type volatility estimates. The t-DCC estimation procedure is applied to a portfolio of daily returns on …-DCC specification. The t-DCC model also passes a number of VaR diagnostic tests over an evaluation sample. The estimation results … suggest a general trend towards a lower level of return volatility, accompanied by a rising trend in conditional cross …

In this paper nonparametric instrumental variable estimation of local average treatment effects (LATE) is extended to … incorporate confounding covariates. Estimation of local average treatment effects is appealing since their identification relies … variable models. Including covariates in the estimation of LATE is necessary when the instrumental variable itself is …

discrete. For the latter case, we derive informative bounds making use of the available information. We also discuss estimation …

rate volatility on labor markets in the CEECs is analyzed, finding that volatility vis?- vis the euro significantly lowers … highlights the fact that high exchange rate volatility may as well signal high costs for labor markets. The impact of exchange … employment growth. Hence, the elimination of exchange rate volatility could be considered as a substitute for a removal of …

In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given …. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … volatility measures and four country groups. In autoregressive models, a significant disturbing impact of volatility can be found …

What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the idea that …

-linear) tax and benefits changes. Moreover, the model can deal with several other problems in estimation of structural labour … to show that the estimation strategy has remarkably good finite sample properties for the size of our sample. On the …