Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153232 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 798
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The US economy is often considered to play a pivotal role in global growth. Such a view has persisted despite the falling contribution of the US economy to global growth (from almost 30% in 1950 to around 20% at present). In this paper, we analyse the veracity of this conjecture and consider the implications of cyclical developments in the US economy on the rest of the world. Overall we find that while US economic developments would indeed affect the rest of the world, developments in most countries and regions remain primarily affected by idiosyncratic shocks as well as by global factors, which do not originate from a single country.
Subjects: 
business cycle
Factor models
Global VAR model
Markov-switching model
JEL: 
E32
E37
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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