Financial Linkages and Sectoral Business Cycle Synchronization: Evidence from Europe
Hannes Böhm, Julia Schaumburg, Lena Tonzer
IMF Economic Review,
December
2022
Abstract
We analyze whether financial integration leads to converging or diverging business cycles using a dynamic spatial model. Our model allows for contemporaneous spillovers of shocks to GDP growth between countries that are financially integrated and delivers a scalar measure of the spillover intensity at each point in time. For a financial network of ten European countries from 1996 to 2017, we find that the spillover effects are positive on average and much larger during periods of financial stress, pointing towards stronger business cycle synchronization. Dismantling GDP growth into value added growth of ten major industries, we observe that spillover intensities vary significantly. The findings are robust to a variety of alternative model specifications.
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Financial Linkages and Sectoral Business Cycle Synchronisation: Evidence from Europe
Hannes Böhm, Julia Schaumburg, Lena Tonzer
Abstract
We analyse whether financial integration between countries leads to converging or diverging business cycles using a dynamic spatial model. Our model allows for contemporaneous spillovers of shocks to GDP growth between countries that are financially integrated and delivers a scalar measure of the spillover intensity at each point in time. For a financial network of ten European countries from 1996-2017, we find that the spillover effects are positive on average but much larger during periods of financial stress, pointing towards stronger business cycle synchronisation. Dismantling GDP growth into value added growth of ten major industries, we observe that some sectors are strongly affected by positive spillovers (wholesale & retail trade, industrial production), others only to a weaker degree (agriculture, construction, finance), while more nationally influenced industries show no evidence for significant spillover effects (public administration, arts & entertainment, real estate).
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(Since When) Are East and West German Business Cycles Synchronised?
Stefan Gießler, Katja Heinisch, Oliver Holtemöller
Abstract
This paper analyses whether and since when East and West German business cycles are synchronised. We investigate real GDP, unemployment rates and survey data as business cycle indicators and employ several empirical methods. Overall, we find that the regional business cycles have synchronised over time. GDP-based indicators and survey data show a higher degree of synchronisation than the indicators based on unemployment rates. However, recently synchronisation among East and West German business cycles seems to become weaker, in line with international evidence.
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Kommentar: Politische Kreditvergabe der Sparkassen
Reint E. Gropp
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
Nr. 6,
2015
Abstract
Theorien politischer Konjunkturzyklen gehen davon aus, dass Politiker in Wahljahren einer expansiven Steuerpolitik zuneigen, weil sie ein Interesse daran haben, ihre Popularität zu steigern, indem sie die wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen möglichst günstig erscheinen lassen.
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26.11.2015 • 43/2015
Sparkassen vergeben in Wahljahren mehr Kredite
Offenbar nutzen Kommunalpolitiker und -politikerinnen in Wahljahren ihren Einfluss auf die Kreditvergabe der Sparkassen aus. Dies legen Berechnungen des Leibniz-Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) nahe. „In Jahren, in denen Kommunalwahlen stattfanden, erhöhten die Sparkassen ihre Unternehmenskredite im Durchschnitt um 7,6 Mio. Euro“, erklärt IWH-Präsident Reint E. Gropp. Kredite, die in Wahljahren gewährt wurden, waren außerdem von geringerer Qualität und verringerten die Einnahmen der Sparkassen.
Reint E. Gropp
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Zur empirischen Bedeutung der Theorie realer Konjunkturzyklen: ein Vergleich alternativer Schätzverfahren
Christian Schumacher
Forschungsreihe,
Nr. 6,
1999
Abstract
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