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Title:
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Characterization of cyclical phases in the manufacturing industry in Spain
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Author:
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Sala Rios, Mercè; Torres Solé, Teresa; Farré i Perdiguer, Mariona
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Notes:
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to characterize the cyclical phases of the manufacturing industry in Spain and detect which industries have more influence on the Spanish business cycle. We assume that economic growth is a priority; we are going to determine which industries have a more/less appropriate cyclical behavior according this priority. We analyze if the industries with better cyclical behavior are the ones that achieve greater co-movement with the business cycle of the Spanish economy, as this means they have a positive influence on economic activity. Design/methodology: We examine the disaggregated quarterly IPI data of 16 manufacturing industries. Our methodology follows three steps. Firstly, we define cycle turning points; we follow the Harding and Pagan (2002) methodology. Secondly, we characterize the cyclical phases of the manufacturing industries in terms of duration, amplitude, deepness and steepness. We also determine the degree of inter-industrial cyclical synchronization and between industries in the cycle of the Spanish economy. This analysis is performed in two ways. On the one hand, we use the concordance index and the correlation coefficient. On the other hand, we work with indicators based on a consistency table. In the third step, we apply a multi-objective methodology, specifically the compromise programming, to determine which industries have a more/less appropriate cyclical behavior according to the growth priority. |
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Subject(s):
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-business
-manufacturing industries
-synchronization
-Negocis
-Indústria manufacturera
-Business
-Manufacturing industries |
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cc-by-nc (c) autors, 2014
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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Document type:
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Article
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OmniaScience
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