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Business Cycle Affiliations in the Context of European Integration
Denise R. OsbornPedro J. PérezMarianne Sensiersubject
MacroeconomicsFallacyEconomics and EconometricsReal gross domestic productEuropean integrationBusiness cycleEconomicsEconomic and monetary unionContext (language use)Annual growth %description
We study affiliations for the countries of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) with Germany and the USA, using various business cycle measures derived from quarterly real GDP. These measures are Hodrick-Prescott and Baxter-King filtered series and annual growth rates. By using rolling contemporaneous and maximum (over a short lead/lag interval) correlations, we document increasing correlations of EMU countries with Germany, with these typically being largest during the 1990s. We also document a strong leading role for the USA in relation to these countries in the period since 1993, thereby correcting the fallacy that the European business cycle was disjointed from the USA for most of the 1990s.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-02-01 |