Business cycle patterns in European regions

Gómez-Loscos, A. ; Gadea, M.D. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Bandres, E. (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: The aim of this paper is threefold. First, we analyze the comovements of business cycles in European regions. Second, we date these business cycles and identify clusters of regions with similar business cycle behavior, using Finite Mixture Markov models. Third, we develop a new index to measure within-country homogeneity. We find that comovement among regions is, on average, quite low, although it increased during the convergence process prior to the euro cash and after the onset of the Great Recession. We identify five different groups of European regions. We also find heterogeneity in the size of border effects.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1007/s00181-019-01743-z

Año: 2020

Publicado en: Empirical Economics 59, 6 (2020), 2639-2661
ISSN: 0377-7332

Factor impacto JCR: 1.713 (2020)

Categ. JCR: SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS rank: 36 / 52 = 0.692 (2020) - Q3 - T3
Categ. JCR: ECONOMICS rank: 217 / 376 = 0.577 (2020) - Q3 - T2

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.604 - Economics and Econometrics (Q1) - Statistics and Probability (Q1) - Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (Q1) - Mathematics (miscellaneous) (Q1)

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Economía Aplicada (Dpto. Estruc.Hª Econ.y Eco.Pb.)