An automatic algorithm to date the reference cycle of the spanish economy

  1. Maximo Camacho
  2. María Dolores Gadea
  3. Ana Gómez Loscos
Zeitschrift:
Documentos de trabajo - Banco de España

ISSN: 0213-2710

Datum der Publikation: 2021

Nummer: 39

Seiten: 2-32

Art: Arbeitsdokument

Andere Publikationen in: Documentos de trabajo - Banco de España

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Zusammenfassung

This paper provides an accurate chronology of the Spanish reference business cycle by adapting the multiple change-point model proposed by Camacho, Gadea and Gómez Loscos (2021). In that approach, each individual pair of specific peaks and troughs from a set of indicators is viewed as a realization of a mixture of an unspecified number of separate bivariate Gaussian distributions, whose different means are the reference turning points and whose transitions are governed by a restricted Markov chain. In the empirical application, seven recessions in the period from 1970.2 to 2020.2 are identified, which are in high concordance with the timing of the turning point dates established by the Spanish Business Cycle Dating Committee (SBCDC).