Economic-Financial Indicators Applied to the B3 Industrial Machinery and Equipment Sector

Economic indicators for the US transportation sector

Since the transportation sector plays an important role in business cycle propagation, we develop indicators for this sector to identify its current state, and predict its future. We define the reference cycle, including both business and growth cycles, for this sector over the period from 1979 using both the conventional National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) method and modern time series...

Financial sector origins of economic growth delusion∗

After financial crises, GDP is typically persistently weak compared to pre-crisis trends. We build a simple competitive general equilibrium model to highlight role that the financial sector may have in boosting GDP to unsustainable, undesirable levels before financial crises. Allowing banks to freely trade in financial securities exacerbates the problem. Because loans generate collateral, banks...

YV Reddy: Society, economic policies, and the financial sector

I am grateful to the Per Jacobsson Foundation, in particular Chairman Ortiz, for conferring on me the honour of delivering the Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture for 2012. I did not have the good fortune to meet Per Jacobsson, so my familiarity with him is primarily through the references made to him in the second volume of the history of the Reserve Bank of India. He came across as a forceful pe...

a survey on factors to create and maintain relationship between industrial suppliers and buyers in iran (a case on crane machinery and industrial equipment)

this article identifies the factors which create and maintain the long term relationship between industrial crane suppliers and their buyers. a random sample of 79 respondents of buying companies was tested by structural equation models with lisrel and pls. findings revealed that latent variables like satisfaction, trust, commitment and intention to continue relationship had goodness of fit. th...

Understanding Economic Growth in Venezuela: 1970-2005 - The Financial Sector