This article investigates the business cycles of Eurozone economies. We detect static and dynamic relationships between cyclical components of output, arising through the use of different filtering methods. This is achieved using for the first, correlations, and for the second, the...

This article investigates the stylized facts of money and credit over the business cycles in nine Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries using quarterly data from 1960 to 2006, through the application of two main detrending methods. Our findings confirm the...

This paper investigates the business cycles in output and real output in nine countries. We detect the long-run and short-run relationships between the cyclical components of output and real output, using Autoregressive Distributed Lag and Error Correlation Models, respectively.

This paper investigates the business cycles in output and real output in nine countries. We detect the long-run and short-run relationships between the cyclical components of output and real output, using Autoregressive Distributed Lag and Error Correlation Models, respectively.

This paper presents evidence regarding the existence of common business cycles in OECD countries. More specifically, the paper examines the extent to which these cycles relate to each other over time. Business cycle components of output are extracted by adopting the Hodrick–Prescott,...

This paper investigates the stylized facts of prices and interest rates over the business cycles in nine OECD countries using quarterly data from 1960 to 2004. We examine the stylized facts used various detrending methods. Our findings confirm the existence of substantive cyclical regularities...

In this paper we set out the welfare economics based case for imposing cartel penalties on the cartel overcharge rather than on the more conventional bases of revenue or profits (illegal gains). To do this we undertake a systematic comparison of a penalty based on the cartel overcharge with...