Aguiar-Conraria, Luís; Brinca, Pedro; Guðjónsson, … - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2015
results show that the U.S. states are remarkably well synchronized compared to the previous findings w.r.t. the Euro Area …. There is also a strong and significant correlation between business cycle dissimilitudes and the distance between each pair … of states, consistent to gravity type mechanisms where distance affects trade. Trade, in turn, increases business cycle …