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Model-based Business Cycle and Financial Cycle Decomposition for Europe and the U.S.

We develop a multivariate unobserved components model to extract business cycle and financial cycle indicators from a panel of economic and financial time series of four large developed economies. Our model is flexible and allows for the inclusion of cycle components in different selections of economic variables with different scales and with possible phase shifts. We find clear evidence of the presence of a financial cycle with a length that is approximately twice the length of a regular business cycle. Moreover, cyclical movements in credit related variables largely depend on the financial cycle, and only marginally on the business cycle. Property prices appear to have their own idiosyncratic dynamics and do not substantially load on business or financial cycle components. Systemic surveillance policies should therefore account for the different dynamic components in typical macro financial variables.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 16-051/IV

Classification
Wirtschaft
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
Subject
financial cycle
business cycle
phase shift
multivariate state space model
Kalman filtering
panel time series

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Koopman, Siem Jan
Lit, Rutger
Lucas, Andre
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Tinbergen Institute
(where)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(when)
2016

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Koopman, Siem Jan
  • Lit, Rutger
  • Lucas, Andre
  • Tinbergen Institute

Time of origin

  • 2016

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