The Portuguese business cycle: chronology and duration dependence

This paper tries to identify, for the first time, 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 mo...

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Autor principal: Castro, Vítor (author)
Formato: workingPaper
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2011
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/11991
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/11991