• DocumentCode
    554830
  • Title

    Notice of Retraction
    An empirical research of the business cycle synchronization among the GCC

  • Author

    Zhao Wang ; Zuwei Yu

  • Author_Institution
    Econ. & Manage. Sch., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China
  • Volume
    8
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    12-14 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    4371
  • Lastpage
    4376
  • Abstract
    Notice of Retraction

    After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

    We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

    The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

    The Gulf Cooperation Council countries plan to establish a single currency union in 2010. However, business cycle synchronization is one of the most fundamental conditions for the stability of the monetary union. This paper investigates whether the six gulf countries are equipped with the fundamental conditions for the stability of the monetary union according to their business cycle synchronization. Through establishing the vector error correction model (VECM) and applying the theory of common trends and common cycles, we do some empirical analyses for the six gulf countries in terms of the business cycle synchronization. The empirical results show that the six gulf countries´ outputs are co-integrated in the long run, and the business cycle of six countries is perfectly and totally synchronous in the short run. So the six gulf countries basically meet the fundamental criterion with respect to the stability of the monetary union.
  • Keywords
    economic cycles; foreign exchange trading; GCC; Gulf cooperation council; business cycle synchronization; business monetary union; empirical analyses; gulf countries; monetary union; single currency union; vector error correction model; Aggregates; Business; Correlation; Economic indicators; Stability analysis; Synchronization; Business Cycle Synchronization; Gulf Cooperation Council(GCC); Monetary Union;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electronic and Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology (EMEIT), 2011 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Harbin, Heilongjiang
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-087-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EMEIT.2011.6023926
  • Filename
    6023926