This paper develops an empirical macroeconomic framework to analyze the relationship between major political disruptions and business cycles of a country. We combine a new dataset of political revolutions (mass domestic political campaigns to remove dictators and juntas) across the world since 1960, with coup data and traditional macro data (of output, investment, trade, inflation and exchange ...

This paper addresses the international comovement puzzle. International real business cycle models tend to predict negative cross-country correlations of investment and employment. In the data these correlations are positive. To reconcile the theory with the data the literature has resorted to financial frictions and new sources of disturbances. We show that a model driven by productivity shock...