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Medición Del Ciclo Económico
Medición Del Ciclo Económico
Business
Cycle
Measurement
Chapter 3 Topics
Regularities in GDP fluctuations.
Comovement
Behavior of Key Macroeconomic Variables
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Regularities in GDP
Fluctuations
Business Cycles are fluctuations about trend in
real GDP.
The turning points in the deviations of real GDP
from trend are peaks and troughs.
Persistent positive deviations from trend are
booms and persistent negative deviations from
trend are recessions.
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Behavior of Key
Macroeconomic Variables
Components of GDP: consumption and
investment.
Nominal variables: price level and money
supply.
Labor market variables: employment, real wage,
average labor productivity.
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