‘Great moderation’ due to weaker recoveries, paper argues

Post-1945 fall in US volatility saw changes to both recessions and recoveries

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The Bank of Spain's paper is the first to analyse the period in the context of US economic data going back to 1875

The "great moderation" of the US economy since the 1980s was due primarily to a fall in the strength of economic recoveries, a working paper published recently by the Bank of Spain argues.

In The Great Moderation in historical perspective – is it that great?, María Dolores Gadea, Ana Gómez-Loscos and Gabriel Perez-Quiros examine the "great moderation". This is the commonly-used term for the "significant decline in macroeconomic volatility" in the US that began in the 1980s.

Their paper, the

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