The paper investigates the international GDP synchronization within the international real business cycle framework (Backus, Kehoe and Kydland, 1992). It sheds new light on the comovement issue by highlighting the role of cross-country divergence in labor market institutions (LMIs). We first...

Since the mid-1980s, an extensive empirical literature has investegated the relationship between the US fiscal and trade deficits without reaching any consensus. Two elements may account for these conflicting results. First, considering data in levels versus stationarized data has an impact on...

This paper investigates the consequences of the Bretton Woods system and the EMS on business cycle properties. For both exchange rate regimes, we observe a disconnect between the volatility of the exchange rate and that of its fundamentals. EMS members exhibit higher synchronization as far as...