Global macro-financial cycles and spillovers

Jongrim Ha, M. Ayhan Kose, Christopher Otrok and Eswar Prasad

Journal of Banking & Finance, 2025, vol. 178, issue C

Abstract: We develop a new dynamic factor model to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers from financial variables. We consider cycles in macroeconomic aggregates (output, consumption, and investment) and financial variables (equity and house prices, and interest rates). The global macro factor plays a major role in explaining G-7 business cycles, but there are also discernible spillovers from equity and house price shocks onto macroeconomic aggregates, at least over the past two decades, accounting for up to 17 % of the variation in global business cycle fluctuations. These spillovers operate mainly through the global macro factor rather than the country-specific macro factors (i.e., these spillovers affect business cycles in all G-7 economies), and are stronger for output and investment fluctuations and more prominent in the period leading up to and following the global financial crisis. We find weaker evidence of spillovers from macroeconomic cycles to financial variables, perhaps reflecting the predictive power of global financial markets.

Keywords: Global business cycles; Global financial cycles; Common shocks; International spillovers; Dynamic factor models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 C32 E32 F4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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Working Paper: Global Macro-Financial Cycles and Spillovers (2020)
Working Paper: Global Macro-Financial Cycles and Spillovers (2020)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2025.107512

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