Measuring Business Cycle Time

James H Stock

Journal of Political Economy, 1987, vol. 95, issue 6, 1240-61

Abstract: The business cycle analysis of Arthur F. Burns and Wesley C. Mitchell and the National Bureau of Economic Research presumed that aggregate economic variables evolve on a time scale defined by business cycle turning points rather than by months or quarters. Do macroeconomic variables appear to evolve on an economic rather than a calendar time scale? Evidence presented here suggests that they do. However, the estimated economic time scales are only weakly related to business cycle time scales, providing evidence against the view underlying traditional business cycle analysis. Copyright 1987 by University of Chicago Press.

Date: 1987
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