Business Cycle Dating Committee of the Centre for Economic Policy Research FAQ

This page on the Centre for Economic Policy Research site gives details on business cycles in countries using the euro.

Business cycle expansion and contraction

The National Bureau of Economic Research’s list of US business cycles since 1854.

Economic Cycle Research Institute

ECRI is an independent institute dedicated to research into business cycles.

Phase of Business Cycles, Australia 1960–2009

This page on the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research site lists Australia’s business cycles.

The New Zealand business cycle: return to golden days?

This article by Viv B. Hall and C. John McDermott examines New Zealand’s business cycles since the Second World War in relation to the economic expansion of the early 2000s (PDF, 531 KB).

Easton, Brian. In stormy seas: the post-war New Zealand economy. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1997.

Hall, Viv B., Kunhong Kim, and Robert A. Buckle. ‘Pacific Rim business cycle analysis: synchronisation and volatility.’ New Zealand Economic Papers 32, no. 2 (December 1998): 129–159.

Kim, Kunhong, Robert A. Buckle and Viv B. Hall. ‘Dating New Zealand business cycles.’ New Zealand Economic Papers 29, no. 2 (1995): 143–171.

Kim, Kunhong, Robert A. Buckle and Viv B. Hall. ‘Key features of New Zealand business cycles.’ Economic Record 70 (1994): 56–73.

Reddell, Michael, and Cath Sleeman. ‘Some perspectives on past recessions.’ Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin 71, no. 2 (June 2008): 5–21.