Business cycle phases in U.S. states

Michael Owyang, Jeremy Piger and Howard Wall

No 2003-011, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: The U.S. aggregate business cycle is often characterized as a series of distinct recession and expansion phases. We apply a regime-switching model to state-level coincident indexes to characterize state business cycles in this way. We find that states differ a great deal in the levels of growth that they experience in the two phases: Recession growth rates are related to industry mix, whereas expansion growth rates are related to education and age composition. Further, states differ significantly in the timing of switches between regimes, indicating large differences in the extent to which state business cycle phases are in concord with those of the aggregate economy.

Keywords: Business cycles; Regional economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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Published in Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2005, 87(4), pp. 604-16

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DOI: 10.20955/wp.2003.011

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