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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Al-Hassan, Abdullah
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/073
Online Access:Full text available on IMF