Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84702 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
External MPC Unit Discussion Paper No. 37
Publisher: 
Bank of England, External Monetary Policy Committee Unit, London
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the international business cycle with new sector level data on hours and output for Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States from 1992 Q1 to 2011 Q3. We estimate a Bayesian dynamic common factor model on this disaggregate data to decompose the quarterly growth rates of output, hours worked and labour productivity into contributions from global, country, sector and idiosyncratic factors. During the Great Recession our results suggest that the global factor became the most important determinant of output, hours and labour productivity growth. Before the Great Recession, on the other hand, the global factor was not very important; country and idiosyncratic factors were the dominant influences on output, hours and productivity; sector factors never matter very much.
Subjects: 
Labour productivity
international business cycles
dynamics common factor model
JEL: 
F44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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