Ben Zeev, NadavPappa, EviVicondoa, Alejandro2022-05-112022-05-112017-09-01Ben Zeev, N., Pappa, E., & Vicondoa, A. (2017). Emerging economies business cycles: the role of commodity terms of trade news. Journal of International Economics, 108, pp. 368-376.0022-1996https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34779Recent empirical work has challenged the hypothesis that terms-of-trade shocks are an important source of cyclical fluctuations in emerging economies. We show that ignoring the news component in the terms-of-trade movements results in misleading conclusions about their importance as a source of cyclical fluctuations. Using a sample of Latin American countries, we identify news-augmented Commodity-terms-of-trade (CTOT) shocks by maximizing the forecast error variance share of the CTOT series at a finite future horizon. Our identification does not rely on zero impact restrictions typically used in the literature for recovering news shocks. Accounting for news almost doubles the contribution of CTOT to explain cyclical fluctuations: news-augmented CTOT shocks explain almost half of output variations in emerging economies.eng© 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 EspañaCommodity terms of tradeBusiness cyclesNews shocksMaximum forecast error varianceSmall open economyresearch articleE32F41Economíahttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2017.07.008open access368376JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS108AR/0000029317