Alternative Economic Indicators / editor, C. James Hueng

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Kalamazoo, MI : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource: illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
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  • 9780880996778
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Contents:
1. Alternative Economic Indivators / C. James Hueng -- 2. Getting It Wrong: How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy / William A. Barnett and Kun He -- 3. A Closer Look at the Chicago Fed’s Activity Indexes / Scott A. Brave -- 4. Nowcasting the Great Recession / Domenico Giannone, Eric Qian, Argia Sbordone, Mihir Trivedi, and Patrick Adams -- 5. Real-Time Measurement of Business Conditions, Macroeconomic Surprises, and Uncertainty: Is a Recession Looming? / Alessandro Barbarino and Chiara Scotti -- 6. Rising Policy Uncertainty / Steven J. Davis -- 7. Measuring Economies from Space / Adam Storeygard
Summary: Policymakers and business practitioners are eager to gain access to reliable information on the state of the economy for timely decision making. More so now than ever. Traditional economic indicators have been criticized for delayed reporting, out-of-date methodology, and neglecting some aspects of the economy. Recent advances in economic theory, econometrics, and information technology have fueled research in building broader, more accurate, and higher-frequency economic indicators. This volume contains contributions from a group of prominent economists who address alternative economic indica.
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1. Alternative Economic Indivators / C. James Hueng -- 2. Getting It Wrong: How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy / William A. Barnett and Kun He -- 3. A Closer Look at the Chicago Fed’s Activity Indexes / Scott A. Brave -- 4. Nowcasting the Great Recession / Domenico Giannone, Eric Qian, Argia Sbordone, Mihir Trivedi, and Patrick Adams -- 5. Real-Time Measurement of Business Conditions, Macroeconomic Surprises, and Uncertainty: Is a Recession Looming? / Alessandro Barbarino and Chiara Scotti -- 6. Rising Policy Uncertainty / Steven J. Davis -- 7. Measuring Economies from Space / Adam Storeygard

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Policymakers and business practitioners are eager to gain access to reliable information on the state of the economy for timely decision making. More so now than ever. Traditional economic indicators have been criticized for delayed reporting, out-of-date methodology, and neglecting some aspects of the economy. Recent advances in economic theory, econometrics, and information technology have fueled research in building broader, more accurate, and higher-frequency economic indicators. This volume contains contributions from a group of prominent economists who address alternative economic indica.

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