Authors
1 Assistant Professor of Economics, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran,
2 M.A. Student in Economics, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran. Email: jogheini@yahoo.com
Abstract
Recently, the study of relation between economic convergences with the business cycle synchronizations among countries has become one of the important issues in economic literature. In this investigation the business cycle synchronization with the oil revenues studied for OPEC member countries. In this study, the annual data for the period 1973-2010, are used. At first, the time series of GDP and oil revenues have de-trended by the Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter. Then, after confirming the business cycle synchronization and the oil revenues synchronization for OPEC member countries, the relationship between the business cycle synchronization with oil revenues are tested by Panel-VAR model. The results represent positive relationship between the business cycle synchronization and oil revenues for OPEC countries.
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