Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25042 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2005-023
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper is an exercise in dating the Euro area business cycle on a monthly basis. Using a quite flexible interpolation routine. we construct several monthly series of Euro area GDP, and then apply the Bry-Boschan (1971) procedure. To account for the asymmetry in growth regimes and duration across business cycle phases, we propose to extend this method with a combined amplitude/phase-length criterion ruling out expansionary phases that are short and flat. Applying the extended procedure to US and European data, we are able to replicate approximately the dating decisions of the NBER and the CEPR.
Subjects: 
business cycle
European business cycle
Euro area
Bry-Boschan
NBER methodology
JEL: 
B41
C22
C82
E32
E58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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