Milton Friedman and the Monetarists believed that fluctuations in the money supply caused the boom-and-bust business cycles.

Thomas Kevin Swift has packed insights gathered over a long career in industrial economics into A History of American Business Cycles, a book released earlier this year. The book tackles large volumes ...

We use multivariate unobserved components models to estimate trend and cyclical components in gross domestic product (GDP), credit volumes, and house prices for the USA and the five largest European ...

The concept of economic cycles is pivotal in understanding the fluctuations in the economy that impact our daily lives. These ...

Discover Bloomberg Economics' latest analysis on key issues, including the significance of downward job revisions and the ...

Seasonal businesses routinely encounter a range of financial and operational challenges. Navigating economic factors such as fluctuating tariffs threatening the cost of goods and immigration ...

We show that business cycles reduce welfare through a decrease in the average level of employment in a labor market search model with learning on the job and skill loss during unemployment.