Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19010 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1546
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper re-examines the relationship between trade intensity and business cycle synchronization for 21 OECD countries during 1970-2003. Instead of using instrumental variables, we estimate a multivariate model including variables capturing specialisation, financial integration, and similarity of economic policies. We confirm that trade intensity affects business cycle synchronization, but the effect is much smaller than previously reported. Other factors in our model have a similar impact on business cycle synchronization as trade intensity. Finally, we find that the effect of trade on business cycle synchronisation is not driven by outliers and does not suffer from parameter heterogeneity.
Subjects: 
business cycles
trade
synchronization of business cycles
JEL: 
F42
E32
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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