Evidence on Common Features and Business Cycle Synchronization in Mercosur

Carlos Carrasco-Gutierrez and Fábio Gomes

No 15, Fucape Working Papers from Fucape Business School

Abstract: The aim of this work is to analyze the business cycles of the Mercosur?s member countries in order to investigate their degree of synchronization. The econometric model uses the Beveridge-Nelson-Stock-Watson multivariate trend-cycle decomposition, taking into account the presence of common features such as common trend and common cycle. Once the business cycles are estimated, their degree of synchronization is analyzed by means of linear correlation in time domain and coherence and phase in frequency domain. Despite the evidence of common features, the results suggest that the business cycles are not synchronized. This may generate an enormous difficulty to intensify the agreements into Mercosur.

Keywords: Mercosur; business cycles; trend-cycle decomposition; common features; spectral analysis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2009-05
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