A coincident indicator of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) business cycle

A coincident indicator of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) business cycle / prepared by Abdullah Al-Hassan.

This paper constructs a coincident indicator for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) area business cycle. The resulting coincident indicator provides a reliable measure of the GCC business cycle; over the last decade, the GCC coincident index and the real GDP growth have moved closely together. Since...

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Main Author: Al-Hassan, Abdullah (Author)
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, DC] : International Monetary Fund, ©2009.
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/09/73.
Subjects:
Gulf Cooperation Council.
Gulf Cooperation Council
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction; II. Methodology; A. Generalized Dynamic Factor Model; B. Estimating Common Components by a One-Sided Filter; Figures; 1. Average Dynamic Eigenvalues Over Cross-Sectional Units; 2. Percentage of Variance Explained; III. Building a GCC Area Database; IV. A Coincident Indicator for the GCC Business Cycle; A. Definition of the Coincident Indicator Properties; 3. Spectral Density Functions of All Eigenvalues; 4. Average of Spectral Density Functions; B. Properties of the Coincident Indicator; C. The Construction of a Coincident Indicator
  • 5. The GCC Coincident Indicator and the GCC Area GDP Growth Rate6. The GCC Coincident Indicator and the Common Component of National GDP; 7. The GCC Coincident Indicator and the Common Component of National GDP; V. Degree of Commonality and Cyclical Behavior of the Variables; A. Degree of Commonality; B. Business Cycle: Stylized Facts; Tables; 1. The Direction and Timing of Variables Against the Coincident Indicator; VI. Observed Economic Variables and Latent Factors; VII. Conclusion; 2. Testing the Observed Macroeconomic Data Against the Latent Factors; Appendix; I: Data Set; Appendix Tables

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