Duration dependence in the US business cycle. Discussion Paper No152
(2004) Duration dependence in the US business cycle. Discussion Paper No152 . Technical Report, School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology.
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Abstract
Durland and McCurdy (1994) investigated the issue of duration dependence in US business cycle phases using a Markov regime switching approach, introduced by Hamilton (1989) and extended to the case of variable transition parameters by Filardo (1994). In Durland and McCurdy’s model duration alone was used as an explanatory of the transition probabilities. They found that recessions were duration dependent whilst expansions were not. In this paper, we explicitly incorporate the widely-accepted US business cycle phase change dates as determined by the NBER, and use a state-dependent multinomial Logit (and Probit) modelling framework. The model incorporates both duration and movements in two leading indexes - one designed to have a short lead (SLI)and the other designed to have a longer lead (LLI) - as potential explanators. We find that doing so suggests that current duration is not only a significant determinant of transition out of recessions, but that there is some evidence that it is also weakly significant in the case of expansions. Furthermore, we find that SLI has more informational content for the termination of recessions whilst LLI does so for expansions.
| Item Type: | Departmental Technical Report |
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| Status: | Unpublished |
| Refereed: | No |
| Keywords: | Business; Cycle; United States; Recession; Expansion |
| Subjects: | 340000 Economics 220000 Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts - General |
| ID Code: | 355 |
| Deposited By: | Bond, Deborah |
| Deposited On: | 16 August 2004 |
| Copyright Owner:: | Copyright 2004 (please consult author) |