Deconstructing the International Business Cycle : Why does a U.S. sneeze give the rest of the world a cold?

The 2008 crisis underscored the interconnectedness of the international business cycle, with U.S. shocks leading to the largest global slowdown since the 1930s. We estimate spillover effects across major advanced country regions in a structural VAR (SVAR) using pre-crisis data. Our new method freely...

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Autor corporatiu: International Monetary Fund
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/239
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF