On the temporary and permanent components of global construction

Imhotep Alagidede ()

Applied Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 23, issue 4, 284-289

Abstract: This letter applies unobserved components models to decompose global construction series. By examining the temporary and permanent trends in a structural time-series framework, the uninterpretable difficulties inherent in bandpass filters are overcome and the trend-cycle decomposition of the construction series is treated as a special case. Overall global construction mimic patterns in the global economy: falling with recessions and rising with upturns. Understanding the cyclical behaviour of global construction output and its long run trend holds important lessons for smoothing the construction cycle.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1071461

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