The properties of cycles in South Africa financial variables and their relation to the business cycle
Date
2005
Authors
Boshoff W.H.
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Abstract
The paper describes cyclicality in a range of local and international financial variables and their relation to cyclical behaviour in the South African real economy. Cycles are derived using a dating algorithm similar to that used to determine business cycle turning points and falls within the Burns-Mitchell tradition of business cycle analysis. Co-movement between phases in financial variables and similar phases in the business cycle are described using the concordance statistic, instead of the correlation statistic (which requires stationarity). This is a preliminary step in identifying financial variables that can act as leading indicators of economic activity. © 2005 Economic Society of South Africa.
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banking, finance, forecasting method, Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
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South African Journal of Economics
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73
4