concentrate on modeling the conditional mean. However, financial time series exhibit certain stylized features such as volatility … to address this issue and to gain insights on the volatility patterns of CDS spreads, bond yield spreads and stock prices … creditworthiness of debtors more reliably. The obtained findings suggest that volatility takes a significant higher level in times of …

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