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Measuring business cycles: A review

This article summarizes the main findings on problems related to the measurement and identification of business cycles. The aim of this study is to define and identify the determinants of business cycles. This paper provides an overview of the methodology and its future course. Our investigation suggests that some methodological frameworks are available in the literature, but none is perfect. A new development in the field lies in spectral analysis methods for measuring business cycles, which may have advantages over existing methodologies (nonlinearity, stationarity issues). We feel that fractional integration is important in the proper monitoring and explanation of business cycles. Spectral analysis techniques have also proved to be useful for addressing the problems of stationarity and structural breaks in time series when analyzing business cycles. Another important issue that is excluded when studying business cycles is that the link between cycles and economic growth is presumed to be non-existent, implying money neutrality.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Contemporary Economics ; ISSN: 2084-0845 ; Volume: 10 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 83-94 ; Warsaw: Vizja Press & IT

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data)
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
International Business Cycles
Thema
economic growth
cycles
contraction
recession
total factor productivity

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Škare, Marinko
Stjepanović, Saša
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Vizja Press & IT
(wo)
Warsaw
(wann)
2016

DOI
doi:10.5709/ce.1897-9254.200
Handle
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Škare, Marinko
  • Stjepanović, Saša
  • Vizja Press & IT

Entstanden

  • 2016

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