Business cycles in Italy: A statistical investigation |
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Authors: | Giuseppe Schlitzer |
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Institution: | International Monetary Fund, 700 19th Street, N.W, Washington, DC 20431, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper conducts a statistical analysis of post-war economic fluctuations in Italy. It is argued that business cycles in this country qualitatively conform to the general character of the phenomenon, a result which confirms existing evidence. A temporal stability analysis of stylized facts shows that some statistically significant changes in the empirical regularities occurred after 1973, but they did not alter the main qualitative features of the business cycle. The evidence thus supports interpretative models of the Italian business cycle which incorporate a stable propagation mechanism. |
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Keywords: | Stylized facts Business cycles Comovements |
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