BANCO DE PORTUGAL
Economic Research Department
Nonlinearities over the Business Cycle:
An Application of the Smooth Transition
Autoregressive Model to Characterize
GDP Dynamics for the Euro-area and
Portugal
Francisco Craveiro Dias
WP 9-03
July 2003
The analyses, opinions and findings of these papers represent the views of the
authors, they are not necessarily those of the Banco de Portugal.
Please address correspondence to Francisco Craveiro Dias, Economic Research Department, Banco de Portugal, Av. Almirante Reis nº 71, 1150-165 Lisboa, Portugal,
Tel.#351-213128327; Fax#351-213107804; email:[email protected];
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WORKING PAPERS
2000
1/00
UNEMPLOYMENT DURATION: COMPETING AND DEFECTIVE RISKS
— John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal
2/00
THE ESTIMATION OF RISK PREMIUM IMPLICIT IN OIL PRICES
— Jorge Barros Luís
3/00
EVALUATING CORE INFLATION INDICATORS
— Carlos Robalo Marques, Pedro Duarte Neves, Luís Morais Sarmento
4/00
LABOR MARKETS AND KALEIDOSCOPIC COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
— Daniel A. Traça
5/00
WHY SHOULD CENTRAL BANKS AVOID THE USE OF THE UNDERLYING INFLATION
INDICATOR?
— Carlos Robalo Marques, Pedro Duarte Neves, Afonso Gonçalves da Silva
6/00
USING THE ASYMMETRIC TRIMMED MEAN AS A CORE INFLATION INDICATOR
— Carlos Robalo Marques, João Machado Mota
2001
1/01
THE SURVIVAL OF NEW DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN OWNED FIRMS
— José Mata, Pedro Portugal
2/01
GAPS AND TRIANGLES
— Bernardino Adão, Isabel Correia, Pedro Teles
3/01
A NEW REPRESENTATION FOR THE FOREIGN CURRENCY RISK PREMIUM
— Bernardino Adão, Fátima Silva
4/01
ENTRY MISTAKES WITH STRATEGIC PRICING
— Bernardino Adão
5/01
FINANCING IN THE EUROSYSTEM: FIXED VERSUS VARIABLE RATE TENDERS
— Margarida Catalão-Lopes
6/01
AGGREGATION, PERSISTENCE AND VOLATILITY IN A MACROMODEL
— Karim Abadir, Gabriel Talmain
7/01
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE CYCLICAL CONVERGENCE IN THE EURO ZONE
— Frederico Belo
8/01
TENURE, BUSINESS CYCLE AND THE WAGE-SETTING PROCESS
— Leandro Arozamena, Mário Centeno
9/01
USING THE FIRST PRINCIPAL COMPONENT AS A CORE INFLATION INDICATOR
— José Ferreira Machado, Carlos Robalo Marques, Pedro Duarte Neves, Afonso Gonçalves da Silva
10/01
IDENTIFICATION WITH AVERAGED DATA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR HEDONIC REGRESSION
STUDIES
— José A.F. Machado, João M.C. Santos Silva
2002
1/02
QUANTILE REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF TRANSITION DATA
— José A.F. Machado, Pedro Portugal
Banco de Portugal / Working papers
I
2/02
SHOULD WE DISTINGUISH BETWEEN STATIC AND DYNAMIC LONG RUN EQUILIBRIUM IN
ERROR CORRECTION MODELS?
— Susana Botas, Carlos Robalo Marques
3/02
MODELLING TAYLOR RULE UNCERTAINTY
— Fernando Martins, José A. F. Machado, Paulo Soares Esteves
4/02
PATTERNS OF ENTRY, POST-ENTRY GROWTH AND SURVIVAL: A COMPARISON BETWEEN
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN OWNED FIRMS
— José Mata, Pedro Portugal
5/02
BUSINESS CYCLES: CYCLICAL COMOVEMENT WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE PERIOD
1960-1999. A FREQUENCY DOMAIN APPROACH
— João Valle e Azevedo
6/02
AN “ART”, NOT A “SCIENCE”? CENTRAL BANK MANAGEMENT IN PORTUGAL UNDER THE
GOLD STANDARD, 1854-1891
— Jaime Reis
7/02
MERGE OR CONCENTRATE? SOME INSIGHTS FOR ANTITRUST POLICY
— Margarida Catalão-Lopes
8/02
DISENTANGLING THE MINIMUM WAGE PUZZLE: ANALYSIS OF WORKER ACCESSIONS AND
SEPARATIONS FROM A LONGITUDINAL MATCHED EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA SET
— Pedro Portugal, Ana Rute Cardoso
9/02
THE MATCH QUALITY GAINS FROM UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
— Mário Centeno
10/02
HEDONIC PRICES INDEXES FOR NEW PASSENGER CARS IN PORTUGAL (1997-2001)
— Hugo J. Reis, J.M.C. Santos Silva
11/02
THE ANALYSIS OF SEASONAL RETURN ANOMALIES IN THE PORTUGUESE STOCK MARKET
— Miguel Balbina, Nuno C. Martins
12/02
DOES MONEY GRANGER CAUSE INFLATION IN THE EURO AREA?
— Carlos Robalo Marques, Joaquim Pina
13/02
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: HOW STRONG IS THE RELATION?
— Tiago V. de V. Cavalcanti, Álvaro A. Novo
2003
1/03
FOUNDING CONDITIONS AND THE SURVIVAL OF NEW FIRMS
— P.A. Geroski, José Mata, Pedro Portugal
2/03
THE TIMING AND PROBABILITY OF FDI:
An Application to the United States Multinational Enterprises
— José Brandão de Brito, Felipa de Mello Sampayo
3/03
OPTIMAL FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICY: EQUIVALENCE RESULTS
— Isabel Correia, Juan Pablo Nicolini, Pedro Teles
4/03
FORECASTING EURO AREA AGGREGATES WITH BAYESIAN VAR AND VECM MODELS
— Ricardo Mourinho Félix, Luís C. Nunes
5/03
CONTAGIOUS CURRENCY CRISES: A SPATIAL PROBIT APPROACH
— Álvaro Novo
6/03
THE DISTRIBUTION OF LIQUIDITY IN A MONETARY UNION WITH DIFFERENT PORTFOLIO
RIGIDITIES
— Nuno Alves
Banco de Portugal / Working papers
II
7/03
COINCIDENT AND LEADING INDICATORS FOR THE EURO AREA: A FREQUENCY BAND
APPROACH
— António Rua, Luís C. Nunes
8/03
WHY DO FIRMS USE FIXED-TERM CONTRACTS?
— José Varejão, Pedro Portugal
9/03
NONLINEARITIES OVER THE BUSINESS CYCLE: AN APPLICATION OF THE SMOOTH
TRANSITION AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL TO CHARACTERIZE GDP DYNAMICS FOR THE
EURO-AREA AND PORTUGAL
— Francisco Craveiro Dias
Banco de Portugal / Working papers
III