A New Approach to the Analysis of Business Cycle Transitions in a Model of Output and Employment

This paper proposes a new framework for the impulse-response analysis of business cycle transitions. A cointegrated vector autoregressive Markov-switching model is found to be a congruent representation of post-war US employment and output data. In this model some parameters change according to the...

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Main Authors: Krolzig, H, Toro, J
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2001