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Business Cycle Synchronisation: Disentangling Global Trade and Financial Linkages

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Trade and financial linkages are the arteries through which the life-blood of the world economy circulates. Does this imply that trade and financial integration increasingly synchronise the ‘pulse rates’ of modern economies, that is, their business cycles? And how can we disentangle the roles played by trade and financial linkages?

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  1. External Developments Division, European Central Bank, Germany

    Filippo di Mauro (Head), Stephane Dees (Principal Economist) & Marco J. Lombardi (Economist)

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di Mauro, F., Dees, S., Lombardi, M.J. (2010). Business Cycle Synchronisation: Disentangling Global Trade and Financial Linkages. In: Catching the Flu from the United States. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230282070_2

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