EAL GROSS domestic product (GDP) increased 2.2 percent at an annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to the third estimates of the national income and product accounts (NIPAs) (chart 1 and table 1).1 In the third quarter, real GDP increased 5.0 percent. The third estimate of real GDP growth was unrevised from the second estimate, and the general picture of the economy for the fourt...

Although some countries have reduced asbestos consumption and instituted bans, other countries continue to produce and consume asbestos even as asbestos-related deaths mount and the associated societal costs are high. Asbestos production and consumption has declined globally; the number of bans has increased; and the speed at which countries have tapered off consumption has increased. Using cou...

the exchange rate unification is one of the most important instruments of economic adjustment, which is used in many countries. this paper shows the effects of the exchange rate unification on price level (inflation), gross domestic production (gdp), non-oil exports, private conception, government expenditure and stock of money. the data, is used related to the period 1959-2000. to analyze the ...

unlike other studies in which the autours have focused on testing the existence of an environmental kuznets curve, in this study, causality relationship between the energy consumption (oil equivalent), carbon emissions, gross domestic production, total labor force and fixed capital formation is investigated during 1960 to 2007 in iran. following an examination of stationary tests for all the va...

The exchange rate unification is one of the most important instruments of economic adjustment, which is used in many countries. This paper shows the effects of the exchange rate unification on price level (inflation), gross domestic production (GDP), non-oil exports, private conception, government expenditure and stock of money. The data, is used related to the period 1959-2000. To analyze the ...

World capital ‡ows are substantial. Since 2000, gross world capital ‡ows have averaged about 25 percent of world GDP per year, while net capital ‡ows have been in excess of 4 percent of world GDP. Figure 1 shows these net ‡ows as a fraction of world gross domestic product (GDP) over this period. Robert Lucas (1990) presumed that poor countries would have higher marginal products of capital (MPK...

Time series of quarterly observations on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is collected and used in this study. Forecasting results of ANNs are compared with those of the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and regression as benchmark methods. Using Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), the empirical results show that ANN performs better than the traditional methods in forecasting GDP.