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performing short-term forecasts of quarterly world GDP growth in real time and computing real-time business cycle probabilities … of quarterly world growth and of the state of the world business cycle on a monthly basis …
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provides a consistent narrative of the main regional contributors of world economy's weakness. Third, it allows to perform …
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provides a consistent narrative of the main regional contributors of world economy's weakness. Third, it allows to perform …
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This paper examines the business cycle linkages that propagate industry-specific business cycle shocks throughout the economy in a way that (sometimes) generates aggregated cycles. The transmission of sectoral business cycles is modelled through a multivariate Markov-switching model, which is...
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This paper assesses the role of financial variables in real economic fluctuations, in view of analysing the link between financial cycles and business cycles at the global level. A Global VAR modelling approach, which has been proved suitable for modelling country or regional linkages, is used...
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Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We characterize their behavior using some 3,200 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Before the financial crisis, spreads are 10 times more volatile in emerging economies than in...
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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 …
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world have altered the transmission mechanism of international business cycles to Latin America. Evidence based on a Global … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … associated with a deceleration in China's economic growth in the future for both Latin America and the rest of the world economy …
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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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Housing crises usually go hand in hand with a long lasting recession and a considerable loss in output. We first re-examine the effects of a housing crises on the business cycle based on historical crises. Then we estimate the international spill-over-effects if several huge industrial countries...
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