We use National Bank of New Zealand Regional Economic Activity data, to identify and characterise classical business cycle turning points, for New Zealand's 14 regions and aggregate New Zealand activity. Using Concordance statistic measures, logistic model and GMM estimation methods, meaningful...

We place regional industry structures at centre stage in currency union analysis, decomposing differences between regional and aggregate cycles into "industry structure" and "industry cycle" effects. The industry structure effect indicates whether a region's industry structure causes its cycle...

This paper compares the return to pre-crisis levels and the long-term performance of exports in the main Italian regions compared with some European regions with a similar production structure. The results show that the intensity and timing of recovery in the cyclical component of exports were...

This paper investigates the impact of the recent global recession on European countries and regions. We first present several stylized facts as to the heterogeneous impact of the global recession on individual European countries and regions. We then offer an investigation of three main classes...

Celem artykułu jest zbadanie procesu konwergencji regionalnej w Hiszpanii w latach 1995–2012. W opracowaniu wykorzystano koncepcję konwergencji absolutnej i miary beta i sigma konwergencji. Przeprowadzone badania potwierdziły istnienie zjawiska konwergencji absolutnej w Hiszpanii...

El estudio que se propone pretende analizar el ciclo económico (business cycle) de la comunidad autónoma de Cataluña en el período 2000:1-2013:1 y relacionarlo con el de la zona euro. El trabajo tiene 2 objetivos principales. En primer lugar, caracterizar las fases cíclicas de esta región...

This paper uses an unobserved component model with heteroskedastic disturbances based on Harvey et al. (1992) to measure the time-varying importance of permanent and transitory components in the U.S. house prices. Our findings show that the cyclical component in the U.S. housing market is highly...

This paper investigates the relationship between fiscal policy and output volatility in Russian regions between 2000 and 2009. System GMM estimation techniques are used to account for potential endogeneity between output volatility and fiscal developments. Our main finding is that fiscal...

Este trabajo busca determinar si la política monetaria puede proporcionar una explicación parcial a las diferencias que existen en el comportamiento de los ciclos económicos entre las regiones de Colombia, así como también establecer la importancia que tienen en la explicación de estas...

In this paper, I build a partial equilibrium model and uncover a relationship between regional macroeconomic fluctuations and bankruptcy resolution capacity that depends on the cyclicality of bankruptcy. If the frequency of bankruptcy is countercyclical, the model predicts that fluctuations are...