Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers,
Örebro University, School of Business
No 2022:11: Do Recessions Occur Concurrently Across Countries? A Multinomial Logistic Approach
Aubrey Poon () and Dan Zhu ()
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Aubrey Poon: Örebro University School of Business, Postal: Örebro University, School of Business, SE - 701 82 ÖREBRO, Sweden
Dan Zhu: Monash University, Postal: Wellington Rd, Clayton VIC 3800, Australia
Abstract: We develop a novel multinomial logistic model to detect and forecast concurrent recessions across multi-countries. The key advantage of our proposed framework is that we can detect recessions across countries using the additional informational content from the cross-country panel feature of the data. Furthermore, in a simulation study, we show that our proposed model accurately captures the true underlying probabilities. Finally, we apply our proposed framework to a US and UK empirical application. In terms of recession forecastability, the multinomial logistic model with both countries’ interest rate spread and the weekly US NFCI as the set of exogenous predictors was the best performing model. For the counterfactual analysis, we found that a previous US recession will increase the probability of a recession occurring jointly in the US and the UK. However, a tightening of the US NFCI and a negative interest rate spread in both countries only increases the probability of a recession exclusively in the US and UK, respectively.
Keywords: Recession prediction; multinomial logistic; cross-country; mixed frequency; Bayesian estimation
Language: English
23 pages, September 7, 2022
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