Business Cycles
The business cycle, also known as the economic cycle or trade cycle, are the fluctuations of gross domestic product (GDP) around its long-term growth trend. The length of a business cycle is the period of time containing a single boom and contraction in sequence. These fluctuations typically involve shifts over time between periods of relatively rapid economic growth (expansions or booms) and periods of relative stagnation or decline (contractions or recessions). Business cycles are usually measured by considering the growth rate of real gross domestic product. Despite the often-applied term cycles, these fluctuations in economic activity do not exhibit uniform …
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NGFS: Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System · 11 November 2024 English
This report, developed by the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), presents the fifth phase of the NGFS climate scenarios, offering updated projections for central banks and supervisors to …
for compound risks Combine climate risk with business cycles Review the scenario set for the 2026 update … for compound risks Combine climate risk with business cycles …
IMF: International Monetary Fund · 8 November 2024 English
Growth gathered momentum in 2023 on the back of recovering external demand, but exchange rate depreciation continues and inflation remains persistently high. Labor and FX shortages are intensifying. Public debt …
available, limiting the ability to analyze business cycles in a comprehensive and timely manner. • …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 7 November 2024
Conventional empirical models of monetary policy transmission in emerging market economies produce puzzling results: monetary tightening often leads to an increase in prices (the price puzzle) and depreciation of the …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 7 November 2024 English
The neo-Fisher effect and the central bank information (CBI) effect produce similar outcomes: under both, a monetary tightening triggers an increase in inflation and an expansion in real activity. Separate …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 7 November 2024 English
This paper analyzes the effects of climate change on budgetary sustainability and inequality.
Gourio, Francois. 2012. Disaster Risk and Business Cycles. American Economic Review 102 (6): 2734–2766 …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 7 November 2024 English
Monetary and fiscal policies require coordination to achieve desired macroeconomic outcomes. The literature since Leeper (1991) has focused on two regimes: monetary dominance and fiscal dominance. In both cases, one …
countries. One obvious explanation is that business cycles are correlated across countries, and monetary …
World Bank Group · 6 November 2024 English
This paper provides an extensive review of the literatures on product and labor market regulations and their effects on labor market outcomes. It uncovers the interdependence of these two types …
promotes economic dynamism and resilience to business cycles. Furthermore, PMR that promote market competition … analyzing how pro-competitive PMR matter across business cycles. The OECD (2018b) uses the term dynamic efficiency … resilience of firms against recessions and business cycles could also benefit the labor force as unemployment …
SUERF: SUERF The European Money and Finance Forum · 6 November 2024 English
The paper also investigates two factors contributing to the deterioration of the CA deficit: the high proportion of imported content in Greek exports and the export specialization of Greek production. …
research focuses on international macroeconomics, business cycles, and tourism, with particular emphasis on the …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 1 November 2024 English
than a substantial reduction in the frictions on intertemporal trade or greater asymmetries in business cycles. Beyond explaining changes in the distribution of gross and net trade, the decline in intratemporal …
intertemporal trade or greater asymmetries in business cycles. Beyond explaining changes in the distribution … 1barriers, financial frictions, or asymmetric business cycles across countries. Out of these three, a few … shocks generating business cycles, we develop a general equilibrium model of business cycles, international … interpret the international time series on business cycles and trade through an 18 country variation of … economic activity. To capture these changes in business cycles requires us to take a second order approximation …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 1 November 2024 English
In HANK models, fiscal deficits drive aggregate demand and thus inflation because households are non-Ricardian; in the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL), they instead do so via equilibrium …