Contents
Chapter 1 Creating Harmony Out of Noisy Data
Effective Decision Making: Characterize the Data
Chapter 2 First, Understand the Data
Growth: How Is the Economy Doing Overall?
Gross Private Domestic Investment
Net Exports of Goods and Services
Real Final Sales and Gross Domestic Purchases
The Labor Market: Always a Core Issue
Data Revision: A Special Consideration
Marrying the Labor Market Indicators Together
Consumer Price Index: A Society's Inflation Benchmark
Personal Consumption Expenditure Deflator: The Inflation Benchmark for Monetary Policy
Interest Rates: Price of Credit
The Dollar and Exchange Rates: The United States in a Global Economy
Chapter 4 Characterizing a Time Series
Why Characterize a Time Series?
How to Characterize a Time Series
Application: Judging Economic Volatility
Chapter 5 Characterizing a Relationship between Time Series
Important Test Statistics in Identifying Statistically Significant Relationships
Simple Econometric Techniques to Determine a Statistical Relationship
Advanced Econometric Techniques to Determine a Statistical Relationship
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