Understanding the Stock Return-Inflation Nexus is a continuing concern among scholars. The main goal of the current study was to critically examine the view that the relation between stock return and inflation is potentially asymmetric. To capture the possibility of dynamic nonlinearity and, in...

We adopt an unobserved components time series model to track the business cycles in the G7 countries using the Industrial production index over the period from 1:1961 to 8:2017. The advantage of adopting the industrial production series frequency is that the business cycle can be investigated in...

In this article, we investigate the effectiveness of the credit facilities and foreign trade to combat the cycle duration in the industrial production index. The turning point methodology of Harding and Pagan was adapted to formulate the economic cycle. Using the industrial production index of...