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Business Cycles in BRICS

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Editors:
  1. Sergey Smirnov

    1. Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

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  2. Ataman Ozyildirim

    1. The Conference Board Inc., New York, USA

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  3. Paulo Picchetti

    1. Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil/IBRE/São Paulo School of Economics, São Paulo, Brazil

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  • Focuses on the analysis and measurement of business cycles in BRICS
  • Explores the interrelatedness of business cycles within BRICS
  • Presents cyclical indicators for real-time monitoring economies in BRICS
  • Discusses the socio-political consequences of business cycles

Part of the book series: Societies and Political Orders in Transition (SOCPOT)

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Sergey Smirnov, Ataman Ozyildirim, Paulo Picchetti
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Global Economy and BRICS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. BRICS in the Global Economy

      • Sergey V. Smirnov, Daria A. Avdeeva
      Pages 9-28

    3. Institutions, Productivity Change, and Growth

      • Andrei Akhremenko, Alexander Petrov, Egor Yureskul
      Pages 29-54

    4. The Connectedness of Business Cycles Between the BRICS

      • Paulo Picchetti
      Pages 55-65

  4. History and Driving Forces of Economic Cycles in BRICS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Economic Cycles in Brazil

      • Leonardo Weller
      Pages 69-87

    3. Economic Fluctuations and Their Drivers in Russia

      • Sergey V. Smirnov
      Pages 89-119

    4. Business Cycle Measurement in India

      • Radhika Pandey, Ila Patnaik, Ajay Shah
      Pages 121-152

    5. Economic Cycles and Crises in New China

      • Tiejun Wen, Kin Chi Lau, Erebus Wong, Tsui Sit
      Pages 153-174

    6. China’s Economic Cycles: Characteristics and Determinant Factors

      • Junli Zhao, Degang Jia, Wei Chang
      Pages 175-184

    7. A Brief History of Business Cycle Measurement in South Africa

      • J. C. Venter
      Pages 185-211

  5. Business Tendency Surveys (BTSs) in BRICS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. International Tradition of Tendency Surveys

      • Aloisio Campelo Jr
      Pages 215-218

    3. Economic Tendency Surveys in Brazil: Main Features and Uses

      • Aloisio Campelo Jr
      Pages 219-232

    4. Russian Business Tendency Surveys by HSE and Rosstat

      • Tamara Lipkind, Liudmila Kitrar, Georgy Ostapkovich
      Pages 233-251

    5. Business Tendency Surveys in India

      • George Kershoff
      Pages 253-264

    6. Business Tendency Surveys in China

      • Miao Chen, Jiancheng Pan
      Pages 265-277

    7. South Africa: The BER’S Business Tendency Surveys

      • George Kershoff
      Pages 279-300
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About this book

This volume focuses on the analysis and measurement of business cycles in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). Divided into five parts, it begins with an overview of the main concepts and problems involved in monitoring and forecasting business cycles. Then it highlights the role of BRICS in the global economy and explores the interrelatedness of business cycles within BRICS. In turn, part two provides studies on the historical development of business cycles in the individual BRICS countries and describes the driving forces behind those cycles. Parts three and four present national business tendency surveys and composite cyclical indices for real-time monitoring and forecasting of various BRICS economies, while the final part discusses how the lessons learned in the BRICS countries can be used for the analysis of business cycles and their socio-political consequences in other emerging countries.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

    Sergey Smirnov

  • The Conference Board Inc., New York, USA

    Ataman Ozyildirim

  • Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil/IBRE/São Paulo School of Economics, São Paulo, Brazil

    Paulo Picchetti

About the editors

Sergey Smirnov is Deputy Director of the “Development Center” Institute, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moskow. For decades he worked in academic institutions and private think-tanks. In recent years, he focusses on monitoring and analyzing the Russian and international economy and pays special attention to the characteristics of the Russian economic cycle, building up this field of economic knowledge almost from the ground upwards. His research established the long-run historical trajectory of the Russian economy, identified its turning points, constructed a system of cyclical (leading, coinciding, and lagging) indicators for Russia and assessed its suitability for forecasting of the two latest recessions in real-time. He received his PhD in economics from The Moscow State University in 1986.



Ataman Ozyildirim is Director, Business Cycle and Growth Research at The Conference Board, New York. In addition toleading the research program on business cycles and developing leading economic indexes for mature and emerging economies, he also manages the research program in productivity, innovation and competitiveness. His team produces The Conference Board’s annual Global Economic Outlook which is also updated quarterly. As a native of Istanbul, Turkey, he received his BA in economics from Ithaca College, New York and his PhD in economics from The Pennsylvania State University.



Paulo Picchetti received his PhD in Economics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995. He started teaching at University of São Paulo at that year, in a joint appointment with Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas, where he also worked as a researcher and coordinator of the Consumer Price Index. In 2007 he joined Fundação Getulio Vargas, teaching at the São Paulo School of Economics, and in a joint appointment with Instituto Brasileiro de Economia. He is a member of the Brazilian Dating Committee for Economic Cycles (CODACE), and is involved in a number of research projects acting as an applied econometrician.

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