NDLI: Finnish and Swedish business cycles in a global context

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Author	Bergman, U. Michael
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	This paper evaluates the decisions made by the Finnish government to join EMU and the Swedish government not to join EMU in the early 1990s. Focusing on the characteristics of business cycles during the postwar period, we find that output fluctuations in Sweden and Finland are correlated to two measures of the international business cycle, a European and a non-European cycle. The Finnish cycle has become more synchronized to the European cycle but less synchronized to the non-EU cycle after 1999. For Sweden we find the opposite result. The decision by the Finnish government to join EMU on schedule is justified ex post but was not justified ex ante. Similarly, the decision by the Swedish government not to join EMU in 1999 seems to be justified ex post but was not justified ex ante. Our empirical evidence suggests that economic decisions based on historical data may not be optimal ex ante but they may be defensible ex post.
Starting Page	49
Ending Page	69
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	16124804
Journal	International Economics and Economic Policy
Volume Number	5
Issue Number	1-2
e-ISSN	16124812
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2008-04-08
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Finnish and Swedish business cycles World business cycle European business cycle Symmetry and comovement of cycles Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics Economic Policy International Economics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics and Econometrics

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