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The Connectedness of Business Cycles Between the BRICS

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The original motivation behind grouping Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa as a relevant economic entity was based on a number of similarities concerning the challenges and opportunities for growth of these emerging nations. In this chapter, we employ a methodology originally proposed be Diebold and Yilmaz in a number of papers (Diebold and Yilmaz, Econ J 119:158–171, 2009; Int J Forecast 28:57–66, 2012; J Econ 182(1):119–134, 2014) to investigate to what extent the economies of these countries are indeed related to each other, analyzing the transmission of economic “shocks” between them.

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Picchetti, P. (2019). The Connectedness of Business Cycles Between the BRICS. In: Smirnov, S., Ozyildirim, A., Picchetti, P. (eds) Business Cycles in BRICS. Societies and Political Orders in Transition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90017-9_4

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