Economic and business forecasting analyzing and interpreting econometric results
Discover the secrets to applying simple econometric techniques to improve forecasting Equipping analysts, practitioners, and graduate students with a statistical framework to make effective decisions based on the application of simple economic and statistical methods, Economic and Business Forecasti...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
Wiley
2014.
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Edición: | 1st edition |
Colección: | Wiley and SAS business series.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629502206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Economic and Business Forecasting: Analyzing and Interpreting Econometric Results; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Creating Harmony Out of Noisy Data; Effective Decision Making: Characterize the Data; Part IA: Identifying Trend in a Time Series: GDP and Public Deficits; Part IB: Identifying the Cycle for a Time Series; Part IC: Identifying the Subcycles of Economic Behavior: Use of the HP Filter; Part ID: Spotting Structural Breaks in a Time Series; Part IE: Unit Root Tests; Part IF: Modeling the Cycle; Part IG: Cointegration and Error Correction Model
- Part IH: Causality-What Drives What?Part II: Measuring Volatility: ARCH/GARCH; Part IIA: Forecasting with a Regression Model; Part IIB: Forecasting Recession/Regime Switch as Either/or Outcomes; Part IIC: Forecasting with Vector Autoregression; Part IID: Forecast Evaluation; Chapter 2: First, Understand the Data; Growth: How is the Economy Doing Overall?; Personal Consumption; Gross Private Domestic Investment; Government Purchases; Net Exports of Goods and Services; Real Final Sales and Gross Domestic Purchases; The Labor Market: Always a Core Issue; Establishment Survey
- Data Revision: A Special ConsiderationThe Household Survey; Marrying the Labor Market Indicators Together; Jobless Claims; Inflation; Consumer Price Index: A Society's Inflation Benchmark; Producer Price Index; 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; Corporate Profits; Summary; Chapter 3: Financial Ratios; Profitability Ratios; Return on Equity; Return on Assets; Corporate Profits as a Percentage of GDP; Liquidity Ratios; Leverage Ratios
- Investment Valuation RatioSummary; Chapter 4: Characterizing a Time Series; Why Characterize a Time Series?; How to Characterize a Time Series; Putting Simple Statistical Measures to Work; Identifying a Time Trend in a Series; Identifying the Cycle in a Time Series; Testing for a Unit Root; Structural Change: A New Normal?; Separating Cycle and Trend in a Time Series: The Hodrick-Prescott Filter; Application: Judging Economic Volatility; Look at the Data; Putting Simple Statistical Measures to Work; Corporate Profits; Focus on the Labor Market Using Monthly Data
- Financial Market Volatility: Assessing RiskSummary; Chapter 5: Characterizing a Relationship between Time Series; Important Test Statistics in Identifying Statistically Significant Relationships; Level of Significance and p-value; The t-Value or t-Test; The F-Test; R2 and Adjusted R2; White Noise/Autocorrelation Detection Tests; Model Selection Criteria: The AIC and SIC; Simple Econometric Techniques to Determine a Statistical Relationship; Correlation Analysis; Regression Analysis; Advanced Econometric Techniques to Determine a Statistical Relationship; Cointegration Analysis
- The Error Correction Model