business cycle symposium
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Business Cycle Symposium. Comovement of Economic Variables and Business Cycles Stylized Facts. Outline of the class:. Characteristics of comovement: (a) correlation; (b) relative volatility; (c) leading/lagging Behavior of main economic variables during the business cycles. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Business Cycle Symposium
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Comovement of Economic Variables
and
Business Cycles Stylized Facts
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Outline of the class:
1. Characteristics of comovement: (a) correlation;(b) relative volatility;(c) leading/lagging
2. Behavior of main economic variables during the business cycles
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Two graphical ways of illustrating correlation
time series plot scatter plot
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• Comovement with GDP:
If an economic variable is positively correlated with GDP => it is called procyclical
If an economic variable is negatively correlated with GDP => it is called countercyclical
If an economic variable is not correlated with GDP => it is called acyclical
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Correlation is not the only regularity that we may observe by comparing two time series!
GDP and Import GDP and Consumption
Import is more volatile than GDP
(Import varies more than GDP)
Consumption is less volatile than GDP
(Consumption varies less than GDP)
In statistics, the volatility of a variable (its percentage deviations from trend) is measured by the standard deviation
(std)
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Macroeconomic variables can be characterized as - procyclical / countercyclical / acyclical- more or less volatile than GDP
Is there a third dimension for characterization?
Yes! A variable can lead or lag GDP!
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Leading and Lagging variables
x is a leading variable,
(changes in GDP follow changes in x)
x helps to predict GDP
y is a lagging variable,
(changes in y follow changes in GDP)
GDP helps to predict y
If a variable neither leads nor lags, it is called a coincident
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GDP and the Index of Leading Economic Indicators
The Index of Leading Economic Indicators:(a) is positively correlated with GDP(b) leads GDP(c) is slightly more volatile than GDP
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Which variables may help to predict GDP?• Index of leading economic indicators is a function of the following
variables:
Average workweek Initial unemployment claims New orders for consumer goods Vendor performance
Plant and equipment orders Building permits An increase in unfilled durable orders Stock prices (S&P 500)
Money supply Index of consumer expectations
• The government uses Index of leading economic indicators to predict recessions
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Business cycles facts
Thus by observing the behavior of macroeconomic variables during the business cycles, we can
1) describe their cyclical properties2) compare their volatility to the volatility of GDP3) point out whether the variable leads GDP, lags GDP
or coincides with GDP
These properties (relationship between GDP and other macro variables) are called business cycles stylized facts
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Behavior of main economic variables
during the business cycles
The variables of interest:consumptioninvestmentemploymentwagesmoney supplyprice level
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GDP and Consumption
Consumption:(a) is positively correlated with GDP (corr. coeff. = 0.76)(b) coincides with GDP(c) is slightly less volatile than GDP (std(C)=0.75*std(GDP))
Can you explain these properties intuitively?
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GDP and Investment
Investment:(a) is positively correlated with GDP (corr. coeff. = 0.86)(b) coincides with GDP(c) is much more volatile than GDP (std(C)=4.69*std(GDP))
Can you explain these properties intuitively?
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GDP and Employment
Can you explain these properties intuitively?
Employment:(a) is positively correlated with GDP (corr. coeff. = 0.81)(b) lags GDP(c) is less volatile than GDP (std(C)=0.60*std(GDP))
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GDP and Price Level
Prices:(a) are negatively correlated with GDP (corr. coeff. = -0.26)(b) coincide with GDP(c) are less volatile than GDP (std(C)=0.58*std(GDP))
Can you explain these properties intuitively?
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GDP and Money Supply
Money supply:(a) is positively correlated with GDP (corr. coeff. = 0.36)(b) leads GDP(c) is slightly less volatile than GDP (std(C)=0.77*std(GDP))
Can you explain these properties intuitively?
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GDP and Employment
Employment:(a) is positively correlated with GDP (corr. coeff. = 0.81)(b) lags GDP(c) is less volatile than GDP (std(C)=0.60*std(GDP))
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GDP and Labor Productivity
Labor productivity = output / employment:(a) is positively correlated with GDP (corr. coeff. = 0.83)(b) coincides with GDP(c) is less volatile than GDP (std(C)=0.63*std(GDP))
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Summary of Business Cycles Stylized Facts
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5 Questions about Business Cycles
1. Have Business Cycles Moderated Recently?2. Do Expansions (or Contractions) Die of Old
Age?3. What Are the Defining Characteristics of the
Business Cycle?4. How Can Secular Growth Be Distinguished
from Cyclical Fluctuations?5. How Can Business Cycles Be Forecast?
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Have Business Cycles Moderated Recently?
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Do Expansions (or Contractions) Die of Old Age?
• Expansions not duration dependent• Contractions are duration dependent• Cycle periodicity? No
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What Are the Defining Characteristics of the Business Cycle?
• Co-movement
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How Can Secular Growth Be Distinguished from Cyclical Fluctuations?
• Trend Stationary (TS) • Difference Stationary (DS)
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How Can Business Cycles Be Forecast?
• Nope, not really.
• Poor forecastability from leading indicators available ex-post, even worse with real time data.
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Romer 1999
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