ECONOMISTS develop economic models to explain consistently recurring relationships. Their models link one or more economic variables to other economic variables (see “What Are Economic Models,” F&D, ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Econometric theory provides the mathematical and statistical foundation for quantifying relationships among economic variables and for testing hypotheses about economic behaviour. Central to this ...

“Econometric Model Performance in Forecasting and Policy Assessment,” by W. Allen Spivey and William J. Wrobleski, is intended as a guide to the current status of the evaluation of forecasts made with ...

Are Machine Learning (ML) algorithms superior to traditional econometric models for GDP nowcasting in a time series setting? Based on our evaluation of all models from both classes ever used in ...

Econometric modelling of international trade dynamics combines rigorous statistical techniques with economic theory to quantify how goods and services cross borders and evolve over time. At its core ...

The Rasmussen Reports Consumer Index, our daily indicator of U.S. daily consumer confidence, is a valued leading indicator of the more broadly distributed and less frequent indices from the University ...

Welcome to the 13th Meeting of the Nordic Econometric Network in Helsinki! Nordic econometric meetings are organised once every two years by the Nordic Econometric Network, and their purpose is to ...