Common and Country-Specific Fluctuations in Productivity, Investment, and the Current Account

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Common and Country-Specific Fluctuations in Productivity, Investment, and the Current Account

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Allan W. Gregory
Allen C. Head

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Dynamic factor analysis and Kalman filtering are used to construct a measure of common economic activity for the G7 countries. Common movements are important in productivity, but account for a substantially smaller share of movements in investments, and virtually none of the variation in the current accounts.

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Paper provided by Queen's University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 931.

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- Gregory, Allan W. & Head, Allen C., 1999. "Common and country-specific fluctuations in productivity, investment, and the current account," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 44(3), pages 423-451, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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