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"Deaths of despair" over the business cycle: New estimates from a shift-share instrumental variables approach. [PDF]

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Lowenstein C.
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Trade and Business-Cycle Comovement: Evidence from the EU [PDF]

This paper is an empirical study of the determinants of business-cycle comovement. Using a panel of European countries (1972-2004) it is found that bilateral trade intensity is a robust determinant of real comovement in Europe, this confirming the ...
Luigi Bocola
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Where's the beef? the trivial dynamics of real business cycle models [PDF]

The extremely weak propagation mechanisms of real business cycle (RBC) models are well acknowledged, and some effort has been devoted to improving the models on this dimension.
Yi Wen
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Labour Market Institutions and Structural Reforms: A Source for Business Cycle Synchronisation? [PDF]

We focus on the influence of institutional variables on business cycle synchronisation for 20 OECD countries from 1979 to 2003. More precisely, this paper derives measures for similarity of institutions and structural reforms, and investigates direct and
Sachs, Andreas, Schleer, Frauke
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The properties of cycles in South African financial variables and their relation to the business cycle [PDF]

Linkages between the financial and real sectors of the economy have been studied extensively over the past twenty years to enhance business cycle forecasting on the one hand and improve portfolio allocation on the other.
Willem Boshoff
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Non-linear Modelling of the Australian Business Cycle using a Leading Indicator [PDF]

This paper develops a new non-linear model to analyse the business cycle by exploiting the relationship between the asymmetrical behaviour of the cycle and leading indicators.
Catherine S. Forbes, Roland G. Shami
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A progress report on business cycle models

This article reports the recent progress made by researchers trying to build business cycle models that can reliably reproduce aggregate U.S. time series. The article first describes some features of the U.S.
Ellen R. McGrattan
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Does International Trade Really Lead to Business Cycle Synchronization?-A panel data approach [PDF]

This paper re-estimates the correlation between trade and business cycle synchronization. Different from other previous studies, we employ long-run GDP and trade data and use the GDP cross-correlation index a la Cerqueira and Martins (2009) rather than ...
Michael Artis, Toshihiro Okubo
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