This paper examines the magnitude and timing of American business cycles from 1869 to 1928, with particular emphasis on the pre-World War I period. A new real output series is constructed which resurrects the conclusion that pre-World War I business cycles were twice as severe as post-World War...

This paper provides an empirical description of the business cycle regularities of the Uruguayan economy between 1975 and 1994. The method of estimation of the cyclical components is based on the application of the Hodrick-Prescott filter over the unobservable trend-cycle components estimated...

The time aggregation properties of the Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter to decompose a time series into trend and cycle are analized for the case of annual, quarterly, and monthly data. It is seen that aggregation of the disagreggate component estimators cannot be obtained as the exact result from...

This study of the determinants of earnings among adult foreign-born men using the 1990 Census of Population focuses on the effects of the respondent's own English language skills, the effects of living in a linguistic concentration area, and the effects of the stage of the business cycle at...

This paper explores the effects of incomplete markets and positive spillovers on aggregate and industry output behavior. We consider an economy composed of a fixed set of infinitely-lived industries. When industries coordinate production decisions they jointly improve their productivity. Markets...

This study compares the international transmission of both nominal and real business cycle shocks from 1861 to 1913 in Scandinavia and the Southern European countries of Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Cointegration analysis and estimated vector autoregression for real GDP and inflation reveal the...