Abstract

We quantify the fraction of business cycles fluctuations in emerging markets explained by the combined dynamics of a set of common external drivers. By means of specific constraints on a state-space model fitted to a panel of real, financial and commodity price data for twelve emerging economies, we single out financial, commodity and growth common factors driving jointly a third of GDP fluctuations. Our partition of foreign shocks faced by emerging markets offers new insights into the primitive sources of emerging market cycles and feeds policy discussions in terms of the effects of global financial cycles versus commodity prices. Even when we control for the presence of financial cycles, fluctuations in commodity prices play a predominant role on the performance of emerging markets.

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