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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011981554
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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cycle features. Business cycle synchronization is tightly related to similarities in the institutional environment …
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, we also examine the determinants of business cycle synchronization for the countries in our sample. In contrast to … earlier studies which seek to account for such synchronization using gravity arguments as well as trade intensity and …
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Both global and regional economic linkages have strengthened substantially over the past quarter century. We employ a dynamic factor model to analyze the implications of these linkages for the evolution of global and regional business cycles. Our model allows us to assess the roles played by the...
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cycle features. Business cycle synchronization is tightly related to similarities in the institutional environment …
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cycle features. Business cycle synchronization is tightly related to similarities in the institutional environment …
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determinants of business cycle synchronization for the countries in our sample, we also demonstrate that the bilateral proximity of …
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duration of expansions is shorter; the amplitude and the output costs of recessions are larger; and cyclical synchronization is … synchronization. By contrast, differences in cultural indicators account for relative differences in the persistence, the volatility … and the synchronization of cyclical fluctuations. Theoretical and policy implications are discussed. …
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