Gulf Cooperation Council Monetary Union: Business Cycle Synchronization, Shocks Correlation

Business Cycle Synchronization and Patterns of Trade: Cases from Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

 Do similarities in trade patterns of GCC countries (UAE, KSA, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman), which are geographically and politically alike and also enjoy oil income, affect the synchronization of their business cycles and make them have similar booms and busts? In this paper, we attempt to connect these two features and explore this question. Using various estimation methods (Common Corre...

The Gulf Cooperation Council States (GCC)1

While much of modern international migration is brought about by political factors due to both civil and international wars, the vast extent of international migration following World War II is comprised of labor migration, legal and illegal alike. Although the current global recession led many developed countries, particularly those of the EU, to tighten control over the inflow of migrant work...

Travel Medicine in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Monetary Shocks, Agency Costs and Business Cycles

Working papers of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment on research in progress. They may not have been subject to the formal editorial review accorded official Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland publications. The views stated herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank...

An Investigation on Knowledge Management and Business Strategies Alignment in the Gulf Cooperation Council Banks

Today’s business and technical managers have to actively incorporate knowledge strategy (KS) into an organisation’s Business Strategy (BS) in order to improve the organisation’s performance. A study has been conducted to explore the alignment between KS and BS. The different types of BS were considered in terms of Miles and Snow’s (1978) typology of Defenders, Analyzers and Prospectors. In term...