The contribution of domestic, regional and international factors to Latin America's business cycle

Melisso Boschi () and Alessandro Girardi

Economic Modelling, 2011, vol. 28, issue 3, 1235-1246

Abstract: This paper quantifies the relative contribution of domestic, regional and international factors to the fluctuation of domestic output in six key Latin American (LA) countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru. Using quarterly data over the period 1980:1-2003:4, a multi-variate, multi-country time series model was estimated to study the economic interdependence among LA countries and, in addition, between each of them and the three world largest industrial economies: the US, the Euro Area and Japan. Falsifying a common suspicion, it is shown that the proportion of LA countries' domestic output variability explained by industrial countries' factors is modest. By contrast, domestic and regional factors account for the main share of output variability at all simulation horizons. The implications for the choice of the exchange rate regime are also discussed.

Keywords: International; business; cycle; Latin; America; Exchange; rate; regimes; Global; VAR; methodology; VECM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Working Paper: The contribution of domestic, regional and international factors to Latin America's business cycle (2009)
Working Paper: THE CONTRIBUTION OF DOMESTIC, REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FACTORS TO LATIN AMERICA'S BUSINESS CYCLE (2008)
Working Paper: The contribution of domestic, regional, and international factors to Latin America’s business cycle (2008)
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