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title: Business Cycles and Information Networks
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5284645/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5284645
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5284645
featured: 2025-06-11
citations: unknown
topic: Macro-Finance & Rates
---


# Business Cycles and Information Networks

Network informativeness, or the ease of information flow across sectors, is a leading indicator of real business cycles, with increased information flow leading to stronger industrial production and real GDP.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5284645
- Identifier: SSRN 5284645
- Released: 2025-06-06
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 101 (2025-06-11): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-06-11/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Macro-Finance & Rates

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