The Micro Origins of International Business-Cycle Comovement
American Economic Review
vol. 108,
no. 1, January 2018
(pp. 82-108)
Abstract
This paper investigates the role of individual firms in international business-cycle comovement using data covering the universe of French firm-level value added and international linkages over the period 1993–2007. At the micro level, trade and multinational linkages with a particular foreign country are associated with a significantly higher correlation between a firm and that foreign country. The impact of direct linkages on comovement at the micro level has significant macro implications. Without those linkages the correlation between France and foreign countries would fall by about 0.098, or one-third of the observed average correlation of 0.291 in our sample of partner countries.Citation
di Giovanni, Julian, Andrei A. Levchenko, and Isabelle Mejean. 2018. "The Micro Origins of International Business-Cycle Comovement." American Economic Review, 108 (1): 82-108. DOI: 10.1257/aer.20160091Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- F14 Empirical Studies of Trade
- F23 Multinational Firms; International Business
- F44 International Business Cycles
- F62 Economic Impacts of Globalization: Macroeconomic Impacts
- L14 Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks