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What does procyclical mean?

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Adjective
  1. (economics) Moving in the same direction as the overall state of an economy
  2. (public policy) Magnifying the cyclical fluctuations of an economy.
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The employment rate is procyclical, when the economy is doing well more people are working, when it's not doing well, fewer people are working.
I would argue that the policies that were most procyclical in recent years were housing finance policies.
Currency problems are procyclical, which is to say that they create their own momentum.
They use deceptively intuitive procyclical arguments to line their own pockets.
The negative relationship in the models they review arises from procyclical movements in real interest rates and in inflation.
It failed to prevent or deal with financial crises in emerging markets because of its aggressively procyclical conditionalities.

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