This paper examines the emergence of economic clubs and its coherence with the European commitments by analysing business cycle comovements in six industrialised economies, which are pooled into four different clusters. Starting from turning points chronologies, a binary measure of association...

The paper presents some first analysis on the ISAE Market Service Survey Series, focusing on the subset referring to Business Services (BS). The aim of the work is to identify the cyclical characteristics of BS series in order to build a confidence indicator that, in our plan, would improve the...

The problem of dating the business cycle has recently received many contributions, with a lot of proposed statistical methodologies, parametric and non parametric. Despite of this, only a few countries produce an official dating of the business cycle. In this work we try to apply some procedures...