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Impact of real shocks on business cycles in selected Sub-Saharan African countries
Amu, Barnabas; Osabuohien, Evans; Alege, Philip; … - In: Cogent business & management 8 (2021) 1, pp. 1-18
This study examines business cycle fluctuations in selected Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. The study measures the impact of selected real shocks, namely: terms of trade shocks, commodity price shocks, and government spending shocks, on macroeconomic fluctuations in SSA. The impact of the...
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Structural analysis with independent innovations
Herwartz, Helmut - 2014
Structural innovations in multivariate dynamic systems are typically hidden and often identified by means of a …-priori economic reasoning. Under multivariate Gaussian model innovations there is no loss measure available to distinguish alternative … Gaussian framework of independent innovations, a loss statistic is proposed in this paper that allows to discriminate between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355109
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Economic Fluctuations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Melina, Giovanni - 2019
We compare business cycle fluctuations in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries vis-à-vis the rest of the world. Our main results are as follows: (i) African economies stand out by their macroeconomic volatility, which is is reflected in the volatility of output and other macro variables; (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864121
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Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hoffmaister, Alexander W. - 2006
The sources of macroeconomic fluctuations in sub-Saharan African are examined by comparing the CFA franc countries with the non-CFA franc countries. External shocks, especially terms of trade shocks, appear to have a greater influence on fluctuations of output and the real exchange rate in CFA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782247
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Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hoffmaister, Alexander W.; Roldos, Jorge E.; Wickham, Peter - 1999
The sources of macroeconomic fluctuations in sub-Saharan African are examined by comparing the CFA franc countries with the non-CFA franc countries. External shocks, especially terms of trade shocks, appear to have a greater influence on fluctuations of output and the real exchange rate in CFA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057360
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The role of structural common and country-specific shocks in the business cycle dynamics of the G7 countries
Seymen, Atilim; Kappler, Marcus - 2009
country are identified, and the corresponding shock propagation channels are computed. We establish the statistical properties … of the cyclical fluctuations and investigate the role of each structural common and country-specific shock in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824053
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Macroeconomic dynamics and inflation regimes in the US : results from threshold vector autoregressions
Mandler, Martin - 2010
This paper studies regime dependence in macroeconomic dynamics in the U.S. using a threshold vector autoregressive model in which endogenous regime switches are triggered by the inflation rate. The model separates a high from a low inflation regime with both regimes being strongly persistent....
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Commodity price shocks and the business cycle : structural evidence for the US
Gubler, Matthias; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2011 - This version: March 28, 2011
This paper develops a 9-dimensional SVAR to investigate the sources of the U.S. business cycle. We extend the standard set of identified shocks to include unexpected changes in commodity prices. Our main result is that commodity price shocks are a very important driving force of macroeconomic...
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Common and country specific economic uncertainty
Mumtaz, Haroon; Theodoridis, Konstantinos - 2015
We use a factor model with stochastic volatility to decompose the time-varying variance of Macro economic and Financial variables into contributions from country-specific uncertainty and uncertainty common to all countries. We find that the common component plays an important role in driving the...
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Sequential identification of technological news shocks
Seymen, Atılım - 2013
In an influential recent paper, Beaudry and Portier (2006) propose a sequential approach for identifying technological news shocks. Thereby, the correlation coefficient between news shocks of a short-run identification scheme and technology shocks of a long-run identification scheme in the VAR...
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