Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between the main business cycles features and the institutional and structural characteristics of countries in which they are observed. Using the nonparametric Harding-Pagan approach, we derive the business cycle characteristics of a set of 63 countries that includes industrial, emerging and formerly centrally planned economies from all continents. Our analysis reveals that institutional factors have significant associations with the main business cycle characteristics. In addition, we examine the determinants of business cycle synchronization for the countries in our sample. In contrast to earlier studies which seek to account for such synchronization using gravity arguments as well as trade intensity and bilateral financial linkages only, we also consider the proximity of their institutional and policy environments.
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Documents inKeywords: Institutions, business cycles, synchronization, nonparametric analysis JEL Codes: C32, E32, E37 * We are grateful to SumruÖz for her comments on an earlier version of this paper and to Erhan Uluceviz for his help with some of the data used in this study.
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