Is there a duration dependence in Taiwan's business cycles?

Shyh-Wei Chen and Chung-Hua Shen

International Economic Journal, 2006, vol. 20, issue 1, 109-128

Abstract: This paper intends to investigate the duration dependent feature of Taiwan's business cycles. The constant Markov switching model is revised to take account of the duration dependent feature. The most innovative findings herein are that there is no duration dependence for contraction for the circa pre-1990 periods and no duration dependence for expansion for the circa post-1990 periods. However, there is duration dependence for economic expansion for the circa pre-1990 and duration dependence for contraction for circa post-1990 periods, respectively. In addition, the recessionary dates identified by the duration dependent Markov switching model are identical to the officially defined recessionary chronologies.

Keywords: Duration dependence; business cycle; Markov switching model; Gibbs sampling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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