期刊名称：International Journal of Economics and Finance
印刷版ISSN：1916-971X
电子版ISSN：1916-9728
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：5
页码：187
DOI：10.5539/ijef.v3n5p187
出版社：Canadian Center of Science and Education
摘要：The integration between developed countries and developing ones is attracting the attention of the economic and finance people alike. The level of this integration has been more highlighted through the impact of the financial crisis on the United States economy and its reflection on regions and countries around the world. In this paper we employ econometric model and causality test to investigate if external shocks originated from the US economy play a pivotal role in influencing the macroeconomic fluctuations in different regions and countries around the world. The results show that the US economy is correlated with most of regions, but not with many individual countries; the US economic growth causes only the growth of 13 economies and 2 aggregate regions. This implies that the United States was not that successful in leading the campaign to persuade much of the world to follow its economic style.
