Business cycle phases in U.S. states
By: Michael T. Owyang, Jeremy M. Piger, and Howard J. Wall.
Contributors: Piger, Jeremy Max.; Wall, Howard J.; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Series: Working paper ;; 2003-011E; Working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis : Online) ;; 2003-011E.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [St. Louis, Mo.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Business cycles -- United States -- States.
Description: "The U.S. aggregate business cycle is often characterized as a series of distinct recession and expansion phases.  We apply a regime-switching model to state-level coincident indexes to characterize state business cycles in this way.  We find that states differ a great deal in the levels of growth that they experience in the two phases: Recession growth rates are related to industry mix, whereas expansion growth rates are related to education and age composition.  Further, states differ significantly in the timing of switches between regimes, indicating large differences in the extent to which state business cycle phases are in concord with those of the aggregate economy."--Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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