The link between economic growth and growth volatility

Shu Chin Lin; Dong Hyeon Kim

doi:10.1007/s00181-013-0680-y

The link between economic growth and growth volatility

Shu Chin Lin
, Dong Hyeon Kim^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth and growth volatility through simultaneous equations system. By employing the identification through heteroskedasticity method of Rigobon (Rev Econ Stat 85:777–792, 2003) and using a panel of 158 countries over the period 1960–2010, we find that output volatility is detrimental to economic growth, suggesting that stabilization policies to mitigate short-run economic fluctuations contribute to long-run economic growth. And economic growth accelerates output variability, supporting the feedback effects from growth to the volatility. The evidence is robust to a number of sensitivity tests.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	43-63
Number of pages	21
Journal	Empirical Economics
Volume	46
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-013-0680-y
Publication status	Published - 2013 Mar 2

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Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to R. Rigobon for kindly making available computer code. Financial support (NSC 97-2410-H-032-003) from the National Science Council of Taiwan is herewith gratefully acknowledged. The usual disclaimer applies.

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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.

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Keywords

Economic growth
Growth volatility
Identification through heteroskedasticity
Simultaneous equations models

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Statistics and Probability
Mathematics (miscellaneous)
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Economics and Econometrics

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