TY - JOUR ID - 57599 TI - Spectral Analysis of Causality Relationship between Production and International Trade Cycles in the Selected Economic Blocks JO - Journal of Economic Research (Tahghighat- E- Eghtesadi) JA - JTE LA - en SN - 0039-8969 AU - Zamani, Zahra AU - Tayebi, Seyed Komail AU - Kazemi, Iraj AD - PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, University of Isfahan AD - Professor, Department of Economics, University of Isfahan AD - Associated Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Isfahan Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 51 IS - 1 SP - 113 EP - 135 KW - Spectral Causality KW - Business Cycles KW - International Trade KW - Gross domestic production DO - 10.22059/jte.2016.57599 N2 - In the era of globalization, particularly, since early 1990s, economies around the world have been affected considerably by co-movements in one or more countries. In the literature this phenomenon is recognized as synchronization in business cycles, while joint policies being conducted by trading partners can modify such effects properly. The objective of this paper has been to evaluate a possible synchronized relationship between GDP and international trade cycles in the selected countries in different economic blocks consisting of developed, emerging, oil- exporting and non-oil exporting countries. The causality between these cycles has been analyzed spectrally during 1970-2013 in low and high frequencies. The results obtained show the existence of causation from trade cycles towards GDP cycles in all blocks. Hence, trade relations have caused production cycles, implying the more degree of trade expansion the more synchronization intensity in the business cycles. JEL Classification: E32, F20, F44.     UR - https://jte.ut.ac.ir/article_57599.html L1 - https://jte.ut.ac.ir/article_57599_5f875f014cf702ad69fe923ce2c272e3.pdf ER -