Exploring index of production data for six major UK manufacturing sectors, we investigate the interaction of the UK business cycle with changes in the industrial structure of the UK economy during the last three decades. We propose a Markov-switching vector equilibrium correction model with...

This paper presents business cycle stylized facts for the US, UK and German economies. We examine whether financial variables (interest rates, stock market price indices, dividend yields and monetary aggregates) predict economic activity over the business cycle, and we investigate the nature of...

We examine the patterns and determinants of business cycle correlations among 11 UK regions and six euro-zone countries over the 1966-97 period, using the generalized method of moments to allow for sampling error in comparing estimated correlations. The British business cycle is found to be...