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International Business Cycle Comovement: Trade and Foreign Direct Investment


W. Jos Jansen


De Nederlandsche Bank

Ad C.J. Stokman


De Nederlandsche Bank - Research Department

September 1, 2011

De Nederlandsche Bank Working Paper No. 319

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This paper investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and business cycle synchronization in the period 1982–2010 for eight industrialized countries. We find that more synchronized business cycles are associated with stronger FDI relations during 1995–2010, but that they are mainly associated with stronger trade linkages before 1995. More intensive FDI links are also associated with a greater vulnerability to lagged output spillovers from abroad, whereas trade links are not. Our findings suggest that FDI has become a separate channel through which economies may affect each other and that FDI stocks are now an essential aspect of economic interdependence.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 23

Keywords: business cycle synchronization, international linkages, trade, FDI, vertical integration

JEL Classification: F21, F44

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Date posted: October 11, 2011 ; Last revised: November 2, 2011

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Jansen, W. Jos and Stokman, Ad C.J., International Business Cycle Comovement: Trade and Foreign Direct Investment (September 1, 2011). De Nederlandsche Bank Working Paper No. 319. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1940278 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1940278

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W. Jos Jansen (Contact Author)
De Nederlandsche Bank ( email )
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1000 AB Amsterdam
Amsterdam, 1000 AB
Netherlands
+31205243738 (Phone)

Ad C.J. Stokman
De Nederlandsche Bank - Research Department ( email )
P.O. Box 98
1000 AB Amsterdam
Netherlands

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