02011cas a2200313 a 4500 AALejournalIMF003098 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451855845 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Cashin, Paul. Caribbean Business Cycles / Paul Cashin. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004. 1 online resource (41 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper identifies and describes key features of Caribbean business cycles during the period 1963-2003. In particular, the chronologies in the Caribbean classical cycle (expansions and contractions in the level of output) and growth cycle (periods of above-trend and below-trend rates of economic growth) are identified. It is found that Caribbean classical cycles are longer-lived than those of developed countries and non-Caribbean developing countries. While there are large asymmetries in the duration and amplitude of phases in the Caribbean classical cycle, on both measures the Caribbean growth cycle is much more symmetric. Further, there is some evidence of synchronization among the classical cycles of Caribbean countries, and stronger evidence of synchronization of Caribbean growth cycles. Mode of access: Internet Growth Cycle imf Null Hypothesis imf Rank Correlation imf Standard Deviation imf WP imf United States imf IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/136 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2004/136/001.2004.issue-136-en.xml IMF e-Library