We use monthly data covering a century-long sample period (1915–2021) to study whether geopolitical risk helps to forecast subsequent gold volatility. We account not only for geopolitical threats and acts, but also for 39 country-specific sources of geopolitical risk. The response of...

Stylized facts suggest that output volatility in OECD countries has declined in recent years. However, the causes and the nature of this decline have so far been analyzed mainly for the United States. In this paper, we analyze whether structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the...

Stylized facts suggest that output volatility in OECD countries has declined in recent years. However, the causes and the nature of this decline have so far been analyzed mainly for the United States. In this paper, we analyze whether structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the...

Es wird untersucht, ob die Volatilität der Aktienmärkte im Zeitablauf zugenommen hat. Im Gegensatz zu oft geäußerten Vermutungen ergibt die Schätzung und die Prüfung von Modellen bedingter Varianzen lediglich sehr schwache Hinweise auf eine gestiegene Variabilität der Kurse. Probit...