Sharing a Ride on the Commodities Roller Coaster : Common Factors in Business Cycles of Emerging Economies /

Fluctuations in commodity prices are an important driver of business cycles in small emerging market economies (EMEs). We document how these fluctuations correlate strongly with the business cycle in EMEs. We then embed a commodity sector into a multi-country EMEs' business cycle model where ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fernandez, Andres
Other Authors: Gonzalez, Andres, Rodriguez, Diego
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/280
Online Access:Full text available on IMF