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This paper analyses whether and since when East and West German business cycles are synchronised. We investigate real GDP, unemployment rates and survey data as business cycle indicators and employ several empirical methods. Overall, we find that the regional business cycles have synchronised...
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The present paper discourses on how European integration and gradual enlargement has affected the synchronicity in business cycles in EU regions. The analysis, which is conducted on annual data at the NUTSII level, is based on the following grounds: First, it examines the degree of synchronicity...
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We study the synchronization of credit booms and busts among 12 major European economies and the United States between … credit cycle synchronization. …
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generate stronger comovement, because they combine shock propagation with synchronization of endogenous dynamics. In particular … synchronization. Next, we calibrate the model to data on 24 countries and show that the empirical level of comovement can only be …
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This paper examines the degree of trade integration and business cycle synchronisation between eight Balkan countries and the Euro area over the period 2000:1-2011:4. The main findings are that Slovenia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia exhibit a high level of openness relative to...
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We analyze the role of fiscal policy and intra-European trade in business cycle synchronization in the EU for the … between trade integration and cyclical synchronization are subject to endogeneity problems. We instrument fiscal budget … trade integration are important determinants of cyclical synchronization. We can conclude that once a high degree of trade …
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We analyze the effect of the geographic expansion of banks across U.S. states on the co-movement of economic activity between states. Exploiting the removal of interstate banking restrictions to construct time-varying instrumental variables at the state-pair level, we find that bilateral banking...
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The aim of the present article is to investigate the economic determinants of the synchronization across regional … business cycles. Our findings indicate two major results: First, low degree of synchronization during 1975-2000 has switched to …
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Since the 1990s, the issue of regional income convergence and its long term tendencies has been thoroughly and heatedly discussed. Much less attention, however, has been devoted to the short-run dynamics of regional convergence. In particular, three important aspects have not yet been adequately...
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