A Coincident Indicator of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Business Cycle

April 1, 2009

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Abdullah Alhassan. A Coincident Indicator of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Business Cycle, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

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.

Subject: Business cycles, Consumer prices, Cyclical indicators, Factor models, Nominal effective exchange rate

Keywords: Business cycle, Money supply, Time series, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

34
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Working Paper No. 2009/073
Stock No:

WPIEA2009073
ISBN:

9781451872200
ISSN:

1018-5941

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