The portuguese business cycle: chronology and duration dependence

This paper tries to identify a chronology for the Portuguese business cycle and test for the presence of duration dependence in the respective phases of expansion and contraction. A duration-dependent Markov-switching vector autoregressive model is employed in that task. This model is estimated over...

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Main Author: Castro, Vítor (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/38016
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/38016