Plucking models of business cycle fluctuations: Evidence from the G-7 countries

Empirical Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 255-276

  Mills, Terence C ^a   Wang, Ping ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business cycle asymmetry; G 7 countries; Markov switching; State space models

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CYCLE; G-7 COUNTRY; MACROECONOMICS; MODELING;

EID: 0036524633     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001810100096     Document Type: Article

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