This study readdresses the determinants of business cycle synchronisation. We test, on
the one hand, whether FDI promoting policies may have consequences for the business
cycle comovement between countries, and on the other hand, whether more plausi-
ble identification strategies change previous results. Our results suggest that linkages
through foreign direct investment contribute in most cases positively to the synchroni-
sation between country pairs. In contrast, the beneficial effects of trade integration for
the similarity of business cycles are less robust and thus less important for the trans-
mission of idiosyncratic shocks between countries than previously thought. Finally, we
find that larger differences in the sector structure between two economies result in a
bigger gap between their business cycles.
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