This paper examines the impact of international financial integration on macroeconomic volatility. Economic theory does … not provide a clear guide to the effects of financial integration on volatility, implying that this is essentially an … empirical question. We provide a comprehensive examination of changes in macroeconomic volatility in a large group of industrial …

We propose a dynamic factor model with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility to analyze the relationship … country-specific capital flow volatility and that the impact of these variables has become even more important since the 2008 …

, one potentially adverse effect of globalization is the possibility that business cycle volatility might increase. Rapid … to unstable international capital flows. At the same time, business cycle volatility in OECD countries seems to have been …

implies that business cycle volatility is higher the more integrated the capital markets of the member countries of the …

frictions for business cycle volatility. In our empirical analysis, we demonstrate that stylised facts suggest that countries … with more developed financial systems have lower business cycle volatility. Financial openness has no strong impact on … business cycle volatility, in contrast. In our theoretical analysis, we use a dynamic general equilibrium model to study the …

This paper examines the impact of international financial integration on macroeconomic volatility in a large group of … industrial and developing economies over the period 1960-99. We report two major results: First, while the volatility of output … volatility of consumption growth relative to that of income growth has increased for more financially integrated developing …

The US economy is often referred to as the “banker to the world,” due to its unique role in supplying global reserve …

volatility. In the framework of a threshold model, it is shown empirically that this relation depends on country’s financial risk … risk, financial openness decreases output volatility, while, in countries with high financial risk, financial openness … increases output volatility. Extensive robustness checks confirm this result. -- Output volatility ; financial openness …