Measuring Synchronicity and Co-Movement of Business Cycles with an Application to the Euro Area

By Mark Mink, J. Jacobs, Jakob de Haan. Social Science Research Network, 2007

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We develop multivariate measures of synchronicity and co-movement of business cycles. In addition to synchronicity, the co-movement measure takes differences between cycle amplitudes into account that have been overlooked in most previous studies. We apply the new measures to the euro area. Synchronicity and co-movement for the region as a whole do not exhibit a clear upward tendency. Although several countries saw the similarity of their business cycle vis-`a-vis the euro area reference cycle increase, national business cycles remain fairly diverse. Changes in business cycle amplitudes cause most of the observed change in cycle co-movement.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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