Volatility and Uncertainty

Katina Stefanova and Blu Putnam

Chapter 9 in Economics Gone Astray, 2019, pp 109-119 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Volatility in equities, bonds, and other asset classes remained at very low levels compared to historical norms in 2017, as measured by the standard deviation of daily market price movements. Yet, at the same time, uncertainty was exceptionally high concerning a wide-ranging array of potentially market-moving events which were often in the daily news and getting considerable attention. The co-existence during 2017 of relatively low volatility and high uncertainty presented an interesting conundrum…

Keywords: Economics; Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Fiscal Policy; Inflation; Risk Management; Federal Reserve; Quantitative Easing; Taylor Rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 E44 E52 E6 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9781944659592_0009 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9781944659592_0009 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781944659592_0009

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().