Business cycle volatility in Germany

German Economic Review

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 451-479

  Buch, Claudia M ^a   Pierdzioch, Christian ^b   Doepke, Joerg ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

^c DEUTSCHE BUNDESBANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business cycle volatility; Germany; Vector autoregression

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CYCLE; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; NATIONAL ECONOMY; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; WORLD;

EID: 10244229082     PISSN: 14656485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-6485.2004.00117.x     Document Type: Article

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