Abstract
We provide new evidence on the effects of fiscal policy and government size on pairwise business cycle synchronization in EMU. A novel time‐varying framework is employed to estimate business cycle synchronization and subsequently a panel approach is used to establish the role of fiscal variables in determining the pairwise synchronization observations across time. The findings suggest similarities in the size of the public sector, yet divergence in fiscal policy stance, matter for the determination of business cycle synchronization. Hence, increased fiscal federalism in EMU will contribute to increased business cycle synchronization. Our results remain robust to different specifications and sub‐periods.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 201-222 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Scottish Journal of Political Economy |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 1 Nov 2019 |
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| Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 7 Apr 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019 The Authors. Scottish Journal of Political Economy published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Scottish Economic Society.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords
- business cycle synchronization
- time‐varying correlation
- EU business cycles
- fiscal policy
- time-varying correlation
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Sabrina Bunyan
- Department of Acc, Finance & Economics - Lecturer in Economics
- Ulster University Business School - Lecturer
- Social Work and Social Policy Research
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