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The Brazilian granular business cycle

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  • Murilo Silva

    (Federal University of Santa Catarina)

  • Sergio Da Silva

    (Federal University of Santa Catarina)

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We investigate whether the granular hypothesis holds for the Brazilian business cycle and find that idiosyncratic shocks to net revenues of the top 100 companies explain about one-third of GDP fluctuations for annual data. Quarterly data cannot dismiss the granular hypothesis either. However, the granular hypothesis seems to break down after the 2008 financial crisis.

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  • Murilo Silva & Sergio Da Silva, 2020. "The Brazilian granular business cycle," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 40(1), pages 463-472.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-20-00022
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    • E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
    • D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations

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