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Bilateral Linkages and the International Transmission of Business Cycles

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  • Lance Kent

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    (Department of Economics, College of William and Mary)

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This paper estimates the contributions of trade and financial linkages to the directed graph that describes the international propagation of macroeconomic shocks at the business cycle frequency. Among the findings: import and export intensity are asymmetrically associated with shock transmission; bilateral portfolio equity holdings are associated with comovement within the quarter but not between quarters; the import of goods used for capital formation is strongly associated with shock transmission both within and between quarters. The novel stylized facts refine the “trade-comovement” puzzle into the “trade-correlation” and the “trade-transmission puzzles, both of which are challenges for standard international business cycle models.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, College of William and Mary in its series Working Papers with number 149.

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Length: 57 pages
Date of creation: 15 Mar 2014
Handle: RePEc:cwm:wpaper:149
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Keywords: International Business Cycles; International Panel VAR; Trade and Financial Integration; Comovement; International Real Business Cycle Model.;

Find related papers by JEL classification:

  • F41 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Open Economy Macroeconomics
  • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
  • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
  • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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