“…For Latin America, however, they document that the country specific components to be more dominant owing to the fact that 4 Their methodology closely follows the one in Kose, Otrok, and Whiteman (2003) who decompose the volatility in output, consumption, and investment into the world, region, country, and idiosyncratic components using a sixty-country sample over the 1960-90 period. 5 Several other researchers find relatively stronger business cycle co-movement among developed economies using factor models (see Whiteman, 2007 andCanova, Ciccarelli, andOrtega, 2007) or simple correlations (see Kose, Prasad, and Terrones, 2003).…”