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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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staggering are common, This paper analyzes how synchronization of price changes affects the response to monetary policy shocks. I … synchronization in price setting. …
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generate stronger comovement, because they combine shock propagation with synchronization of endogenous dynamics. In particular … synchronization. Next, we calibrate the model to data on 24 countries and show that the empirical level of comovement can only be …
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The aim of the present article is to investigate the economic determinants of the synchronization across regional … business cycles. Our findings indicate two major results: First, low degree of synchronization during 1975-2000 has switched to …
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This paper examines the degree of trade integration and business cycle synchronisation between eight Balkan countries and the Euro area over the period 2000:1-2011:4. The main findings are that Slovenia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia exhibit a high level of openness relative to...
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Since the 1990s, the issue of regional income convergence and its long term tendencies has been thoroughly and heatedly discussed. Much less attention, however, has been devoted to the short-run dynamics of regional convergence. In particular, three important aspects have not yet been adequately...
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The present paper discourses on how European integration and gradual enlargement has affected the synchronicity in business cycles in EU regions. The analysis, which is conducted on annual data at the NUTSII level, is based on the following grounds: First, it examines the degree of synchronicity...
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We analyze the role of fiscal policy and intra-European trade in business cycle synchronization in the EU for the … between trade integration and cyclical synchronization are subject to endogeneity problems. We instrument fiscal budget … trade integration are important determinants of cyclical synchronization. We can conclude that once a high degree of trade …
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