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comovement en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-lbor. English co- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old French movoir Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -ment Old French movementbor. Middle English mevement English movement English comovement From co- + movement.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The correlated or similar movement of two or more entities.
   • In the other meaning of the term “real,” however—the sense from which springs the label “real business cycle,” namely, a cycle unrelated to monetary developments—the evidence adduced here for the importance of comovements between financial and real variables suggests that the cycle is not “real” at all or, at the least, not completely divorced from monetary developments. 2005, James Hamilton, What’s Real About the Business Cycle?, in: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, July/August 2005

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