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Business cycle

Business cycles are intervals of general expansion followed by recession in economic performance. The changes in economic activity that characterize business cycles have important implications for the welfare of the general population, government institutions, and private sector firms.

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related to References · 39
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related to Indicators · 15
Business cycle → According, Banbura, Commerce, Department, Economic, For, GDP, Ludvigson, Ralph, Rüstler, Series, Stock, They, Watson, Winton
related to Theory · 15
Business cycle → Association, Committee, Jean Charles Léonard, Keynesian, Manufacturing Poor, Nouveaux Principes, Panic, Prior, Relief, Report, Robert Owen, Sismondi, The, They, This
related to Classification by periods · 14
Business cycle → Bayesian, Clément Juglar, Dijk, Econometrics, French, Furthermore, Harvey, In, Joseph Schumpeter, Journal, Juglar, Later, This, Trimbur
related to Occurrence · 14
Business cycle → Both, Great Depression, Great Depressions, Industrial Revolution, Kondratiev, Long, Long Depression, Modern, Over, Productivity, See, Since, The, There
related to Austrian School · 11
Business cycle → According, Adherents, Austrian, Austrian Business Cycle Theory, Austrian School, Economists, Eventually, One, Panic, Thomas Woods, United States
related to Exogenous vs. endogenous · 10
Business cycle → Austrian School, In, Keynesian, Keynesians, Say, Say's, The, These, This, Within
related to Credit/debt cycle · 9
Business cycle → Financial Instability Hypothesis, GDP, Great Depression, Hyman Minsky, In, Irving Fisher, One, Post-Keynesian, Steve Keen
related to Keynesian · 9
Business cycle → According, Goodwin, However, In, Keynesian, Paul Samuelson's, Richard Goodwin, The, These
related to Mainstream economics · 9
Business cycle → Australia, Due, Eugen Slutzky, In, Mainstream, Russian, This, Thus, While

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significant changes in the price of oil or variation in consumer sentiment that affects overall spending in the macroeconomyinstance oftheir periodicity ranges from about 2 to 10 years.There are many sources of business cycle movements0.80text
thus investmentinstance oftheir periodicity ranges from about 2 to 10 years.There are many sources of business cycle movements0.80text
firms' profitsinstance oftheir periodicity ranges from about 2 to 10 years.There are many sources of business cycle movements0.80text
Real GDP or Investmentinstance ofIn this case a time series analysis is used to capture the regularities and the stochastic signals and noise in economic time series0.80text
the two works in 2003instance ofFurther econometric studies0.80text
2007 cited above demonstrate a clear tendency for cyclical components in macroeconomic times to behave in a stochastic rather than deterministic way.Othersinstance ofFurther econometric studies0.80text
such as Dmitry Orlovinstance ofFurther econometric studies0.80text
argue that simple compound interest mandates the cycling of monetary systemsinstance ofFurther econometric studies0.80text
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