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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788337203321

Autore

Al-Hassan Abdullah

Titolo

A Coincident Indicator of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Business Cycle / / Abdullah Al-Hassan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-2248-4

1-4527-4301-0

9786612842948

1-282-84294-3

1-4518-7220-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (36 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Business cycles

Econometrics

Foreign Exchange

Macroeconomics

Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Price Level

Inflation

Deflation

Classification Methods

Cluster Analysis

Principal Components

Factor Models

Economic growth

Econometrics & economic statistics

Currency

Foreign exchange

Cyclical indicators

Consumer prices

Factor models

Nominal effective exchange rate

Prices

Econometric models

United States



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

1: Data, Degree of Commonality, and Cyclical BehaviorReferences

Sommario/riassunto

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 the indicator is constructed using a small number of common factors, the strong correlation between the indicator and real GDP growth points to a high degree of commonality across GCC economies. The timing and direction of movements in macroeconomic variables are characterized with respect to the coincident indicator. Finally, to obtain a meaningful economic interpretation of the latent factors, their behavior is compared to the observed economic variables.