Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153164 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 730
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the role of domestic and external factors in explaining business cycle and international trade developments in fifteen emerging market economies. Results from signrestricted VARs show that developments in real output, inflation, real exchange rates and international trade variables are dominated by domestic shocks. External shocks on average explain a fraction of no more than 10% of the variation in the endogenous variables considered. Moreover, real imports fail to display a cross-regional pattern, while technology shocks appear to be the disturbances playing a somewhat more important role in explaining consumer prices developments. Consumer prices and – depending on the disturbance considered – real imports are the variables showing larger impulse responses to unit shocks.
Subjects: 
business cycles
emerging markets
international trade
structural shocks
JEL: 
C32
E32
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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