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 … and legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the …

mortality, little evidence exist on the potential relationship between sustained income volatility, keeping average lifetime …-specific volatility of income on the other, decomposing volatility into a permanent and transitory component.Controlling for average …

individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … young children at home. Volatility is greater among parents with young children, slightly greater among men than women, but … rates. Volatility in sleep spills over onto volatility in other personal activities, with no reverse causation onto sleep …

This paper examines the drivers of the long-run structural transformation in Japan. We use a dynamic input … contributed to the rapid growth of GDP in Japan throughout the 20th century …

are critical in accounting for the differences in size distribution between the U.S. and Japan …