Business Cycles in the Contemporary World : Description, Causes, Aggregation, and Synchronization /

The book provides a thorough and sophisticated descriptive analysis of business cycles in a historical perspective. The study is based on the latest available time series as well as latest techniques from the frequency domain. A combined univariate and bivariate analysis is conducted on the national...

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Main Author: Süssmuth, Bernd
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint : Physica, 2003.
Series:Contributions to economics.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The book provides a thorough and sophisticated descriptive analysis of business cycles in a historical perspective. The study is based on the latest available time series as well as latest techniques from the frequency domain. A combined univariate and bivariate analysis is conducted on the national as well as supranational (G7- and Euro-Area wide) level. Issues of stability, volatility, and cyclicality are investigated jointly. An extensive analysis of US manufacturing investment series on the fairly disaggregated four-digit level highlights the limits of linear models to capture the sectoral aggregation process. Synchronization is modelled by a mode-locking mechanism of industrial investment cycles induced by informational externalities. The model in its stochastic version is numerically simulated to assess an agreement between model and data.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 165 pages 25 illustrations)
ISBN:9783790827187 (electronic bk.)
3790827185 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:1431-1933