01851cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF016486 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513587677 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Fernandez, Andres. Sharing a Ride on the Commodities Roller Coaster : Common Factors in Business Cycles of Emerging Economies / Andres Fernandez, Andres Gonzalez, Diego Rodriguez. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015. 1 online resource (60 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Fluctuations in commodity prices are an important driver of business cycles in small emerging market economies (EMEs). We document how these fluctuations correlate strongly with the business cycle in EMEs. We then embed a commodity sector into a multi-country EMEs' business cycle model where exogenous fluctuations in commodity prices follow a common dynamic factor structure and coexist with other driving forces. The estimated model assigns to commodity shocks 42 percent of the variance in income, of which a considerable part is linked to the common factor. A further amplification mechanism is a 'spillover' effect from commodity prices to risk premia. Mode of access: Internet Gonzalez, Andres. Rodriguez, Diego. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/280 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2015/280/001.2015.issue-280-en.xml IMF e-Library