 Un análisis del ciclo económico de la República Dominicana bajo cambios de régimenAnalysis of business cycle of the Dominican Republic using Markov Switching modelMPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Abstract: This paper presents a univariate model that analyzes systematic changes in the behavior of the business cycle in the Dominican Republic, capturing changes in average growth and identifying differences between contractions and expansions with respect to their persistence and duration. To do so, it uses the classic algorithm described by Hamilton (1990, 1991) that consists of two parts. In the first part, population parameters, including joint probability density of unobserved states, are estimated. In the second part, using a nonlinear filter and smoothed probabilities, probabilistic inferences are made about unobserved states. Our results suggest that the characteristics of the distribution functions estimated for each scheme differ, both in mean and standard deviation. Thus, for a recessive event or contraction, average quarterly growth was around -0.33% with a standard deviation of 0.45%, whereas for an expanding statistical event, estimates were 0.23% and 0.27%, respectively. Keywords: Business cycle; regime switching models (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:54352 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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