Karadimitropoulou, Aikaterini; León-Ledesma, Miguel A. - 2013
model. The model contains a world factor, country-specific factors, sector-specific factors, and idiosyncratic components … country-factors. The world factor appears to play a minimal role because, when using aggregate data, the world factor captures … in the volatility of world shocks during the globalization period, rather than a lower sensitivity of sectoral growth to …