"This book investigates how global business cycles impact the economies of developing countries. Global business cycles … the global north, and yet there is a relative dearth of studies exploring whether global business cycles exist and how … and upper-level students of development economics and international political economy"-- …

Research about narratives' role in economics is scarce, while real word experience and research in other sciences … relevant to business cycles in the US, Japan, and Europe. We do so by first constructing quantitative measures of narratives … based on the news topics the media writes about. We then estimate daily business cycle indexes using this type of data …