Changes in Economic and Financial Synchronisation: A Global Factor Analysis

We estimate dynamic factor models for two sub-samples between 1995 and 2017 for up to 42 advanced and emerging-market economies to investigate changes in the contribution of global and regional factors to fluctuations in real GDP per capita growth, inflation, 10-year government bond yields and equit...

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Main Author: Maravalle, Alessandro (Author)
Other Authors: Rawdanowicz, Łukasz (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2018
Series:OECD Economics Department Working Papers
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1787/ba7c5c04-en
Summary:We estimate dynamic factor models for two sub-samples between 1995 and 2017 for up to 42 advanced and emerging-market economies to investigate changes in the contribution of global and regional factors to fluctuations in real GDP per capita growth, inflation, 10-year government bond yields and equity prices. The combined average contribution of global and regional factors in explaining fluctuations of GDP growth and inflation increased between 1995-2006 and 2007-17. In contrast, for financial variables, the role of country-specific factors strengthened between these two periods. The general findings are robust to alternative specifications of the lag structure, data frequency and the country composition of the largest region. Country-specific factors explain a higher share of variation of financial variables in emerging-market economies compared with advanced economies. For all variables, there is large cross-country heterogeneity regarding the level of contributions of specific factors and their evolution over time
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (27 Seiten)
DOI:10.1787/ba7c5c04-en