Alternative Measures of Change in Real Output and Prices - A major innovation in the recent comprehensive revision of the national income and product accounts (NIPA's) was the development of alternative measures of real gross domestic product (GDP) and of GDP prices.
Publisher: Bureau of Economic Analysis     Author: Allan H. Young   

Business Clusters Report - This the first UK-wide systematic assessment of UK clusters. It has been prepared by Trends Business Research for the DTI. Its purpose is to provide a snapshot of existing clusters across the UK to inform the thinking of Lord Sainsbury’s Clusters Policy Steering Group and the development of clusters policy. It will be used by the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) as a base source of information for their clusters development work.
Publisher: Department of Trade & Industry     Author: P Miller, R Botham, H Gibson, R Martin & B Moore   

Chain of Production as a Monetary Propagation Mechanism - This paper studies a general equilibrium model with multiple stages of production and asynchronized price setting that provides a new explanation for the observed persistent real effects of monetary shocks.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis     Author: Kevin X. D. Huang and Zheng Liu   

Economic Forecasting: How pros predict the future - Varied forms of analysis can chart the course for your organization.
Publisher: The Graziadio School of Business & Management     Author: Bob Namvar   

Economic Theory and BEA's Alternative Quantity and Price Indexes - This article describes the index number theory underlying these alternative indexes and discusses the interpretation of them.
Publisher: Bureau of Economic Analysis     Author: Jack E. Triplett   

Endogenous Policy Choice: The Case of Pollution and Growth - What determines the relationship between pollution and growth? Are the forces that explain the behavior over time of these quantities potentially useful to understand more generally the relationship between policies and growth?
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis     Author: Larry E. Jones and Rodolfo E. Manuelli   

GDP Growth and Unemployment - Okun's law lives!
Publisher: About.com     Author: About.com   

Hype is at the Root of the 'R' Word - Yet another recession - several thoughts run through our collective minds. The cause of the economic slowdown across the broad base is psychological - activity at the margin intensified by mass perception.
Publisher: The CEO Refresher     Author: Bob Ferchat & Tony Carlson   

If the GDP is Up, Why is America Down? - Why we need new measures of progress, why we do not have them, and how they would change the social and political landscape.
Publisher: The Atlantic Monthly     Author: Clifford Cobb, Ted Halstead, and Jonathan Rowe   

Interest Rates and the Stock Market - One of the most common questions that I am asked via email is why Alan Greenspan's remarks are so important for the behavior of the stock market.
Publisher: About.com     Author: About.com