External Shocks and Business Cycle Fluctuations in Mexico: How Important are U.S. Factors?

April 1, 2008

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Sebastian Sosa. External Shocks and Business Cycle Fluctuations in Mexico: How Important are U.S. Factors?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines the relative importance of external shocks as sources of business cycle fluctuations in Mexico, and identifies the dynamic responses of domestic output to foreign disturbances. Using a VAR model with block exogeneity restrictions, it finds that U.S. shocks explain a large share of Mexico's macroeconomic fluctuations after NAFTA. This partly reflects greater trade integration-but also Mexico's "Great Moderation," as the country escaped its former pattern of macro-financial crises. In this period, Mexico's output fluctuations have been closely synchronized with the U.S. cycle, with a large and rapid impact of U.S. shocks on Mexican growth.

Subject: Business cycles, Exports, Imports, Industrial production, Oil prices

Keywords: Export, Gdp, Mexico, Output, WP

Publication Details

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31
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Working Paper No. 2008/100
Stock No:

WPIEA2008100
ISBN:

9781451869613
ISSN:

1018-5941

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