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American Economic Review: Vol. 93 No. 2 (May 2003)
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Why Has the U.S. Economy Become Less Correlated with the Rest of the World?
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Heathcote, Jonathan, and
Fabrizio Perri. 2003. "Why Has the U.S. Economy Become Less Correlated with the Rest of the World? ."
The American Economic Review,
93(2): 63-69.
DOI: 10.1257/000282803321946813
DOI: 10.1257/000282803321946813
Abstract
In this paper we do two things. First we document that over the last 40 years the U.S. business cycle has become less synchronized with the cycle in the rest of the world. Second we try to explain why this has happened. We use a general-equilibrium model as a tool to discriminate between two alternative explanations: (i) a change in the nature of real shocks, and (ii) an increase in U.S. financial integration with the rest of the world. Our results indicate that financial integration has played the major role in producing the observed changes in international co-movement.
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Heathcote, Jonathan
Perri, Fabrizio
Perri, Fabrizio
