Do Recessions Occur Concurrently Across Countries? A Multinomial Logistic Approach

Aubrey Poon and Dan Zhu ()
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Dan Zhu: Monash University, Postal: Wellington Rd, Clayton VIC 3800, Australia, https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/dan-zhu

No 2022:11, Working Papers from Örebro University, School of Business

Abstract: We develop a novel multinomial logistic model to detect and forecast concurrent recessions across multi-countries. The key advantage of our proposed framework is that we can detect recessions across countries using the additional informational content from the cross-country panel feature of the data. Furthermore, in a simulation study, we show that our proposed model accurately captures the true underlying probabilities. Finally, we apply our proposed framework to a US and UK empirical application. In terms of recession forecastability, the multinomial logistic model with both countries’ interest rate spread and the weekly US NFCI as the set of exogenous predictors was the best performing model. For the counterfactual analysis, we found that a previous US recession will increase the probability of a recession occurring jointly in the US and the UK. However, a tightening of the US NFCI and a negative interest rate spread in both countries only increases the probability of a recession exclusively in the US and UK, respectively.

Keywords: Recession prediction; multinomial logistic; cross-country; mixed frequency; Bayesian estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C25 E32 E37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2022-09-07
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