Sectoral Interdependence and Business Cycle Synchronization in Small Open Economies

News and Business Cycles in Open Economies

Globalization and Business Cycle Synchronization:

This paper empirically investigates the impact of globalization on the business cycle comovement of individual US states with the rest of the national economy and with the rest of world. Regressions with panel data over the period 1990-2005 provide strong evidence in support of the conventional wisdom that rising global integration over time, through either trade or foreign direct investment fl...

Credit Frictions and 'Sudden Stops' in Small Open Economies: An Equilibrium Business Cycle Framework for Emerging Markets Crises

Financial frictions are a central element of most of the models that the literature on emerging markets crises has proposed for explaining the Sudden Stop phenomenon. To date, few studies have aimed to examine the quantitative implications of these models and to integrate them with an equilibrium business cycle framework for emerging economies. This paper surveys these studies, viewing them as ...

trade intensity and business cycle synchronization among eco members

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Business Cycle Linkages Among Major Advanced Economies

current policy issues involving interactions across national economies. Given that the global economy is in a synchronized slowdown in economic activity, the first two essays are devoted to an examination of the international business cycle linkages among the seven major advanced economies—hereafter called the Group of Seven (G-7) countries—and between the advanced and developing economies. The...