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- Title
Frequency domain analysis of consumer confidence, industrial production and retail sales for selected european countries.
- Authors
Mermod, Aslı Yüksel; Dudzevičiūtė, Gitana
- Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between consumer confidence, economic growth and retail sales for selected countries employing frequency domain analysis. Our methodology includes the causality test developed by Breitung and Candelon (2006) which improves the methodology of Geweke (1982) and Hosoya (1991). We focus on the causality tests across frequency bands as well as the usual Granger causality tests. Especially for the emerging countries the causality goes from the economic growth to consumer confidence but not vice versa. This argument basically supports the findings of Güneş and Uzun (2010) as well as Balkytė and Tvaronavičienė (2010), which claim that in emerging countries consumers are not able to trigger the economic growth with their confidence due to their subsistence level of income. Besides, causality from consumer confidence to retail sales, which is a proxy for the consumer expenditures, is detected. As in Basdas and Çelik (2010), we also obtain significant differences whenever the frequency domain causality tests are employed instead of usual Granger causality tests in time domain.
- Subjects
CONSUMER confidence; ECONOMIC development; METHODOLOGY; INCOME; RETAIL industry
- Publication
Journal of Business Economics & Management, 2011, Vol 12, Issue 4, p589
- ISSN
1611-1699
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3846/16111699.2011.599406