This paper investigates the transmission mechanisms of structural shocks and volatility between economies through trade links, and the effects of synchronization on business cycles. We investigate the transmission of outside structural shocks and the fluctuations that the shocks generate. We...

This article identifies caveats of using the correlation coefficient between two fractionally integrated time series as a measure of association between them, and compares various procedures for removing the long-range dependence component in the output series of the G7.

Comovement of stock market indices increases during volatile periods, and does not come down when the turmoil settles down. This paper explains formation of persistent comovements during high volatility periods with theories from Bayesian learning. My main conclusion is that the correlation that...