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2002, No. 6
Posted 2002-03-01

Stock Market Volatility: Reading the Meter

by Hui Guo

After declining in the early 1990s, volatility started to rise in 1996 and since then has remained at remarkably high levels by postwar standards. Although unusual, the prolonged period of high volatility appears to be the result of a string of specific events.