Guide to Economic Indicators by Economist, The -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents Title Copyright List of tables List of charts Chapter 1: Interpreting economic indicators Chapter 2: Essential mechanics Chapter 3: Measuring economic activity

Omissions Output, expenditure and income Prices Putting it in context Reliability

Chapter 4: Growth: trends and cycles

Nominal GDP GDP per head Real GDP GDP: output GDP: expenditure Productivity Cyclical or leading indicators

Chapter 5: Population, employment and unemployment

Population Labour or workforce Employment Unemployment and vacancies

Chapter 6: Fiscal indicators

Public expenditure Government revenues Budget balance, deficit, surplus National debt; government or public debt

Chapter 7: Consumers

Personal income, disposable income Consumer and personal expenditure, private consumption Personal and household savings; savings ratio Consumer confidence

Chapter 8: Investment and savings

Fixed investment and GDFCF Investment intentions Stocks (inventories) National savings, savings ratio

Chapter 9: Industry and commerce

Business conditions; indices and surveys Industrial and manufacturing production Capacity use and utilisation Manufacturing orders Export orders Motor vehicles Construction orders and output Housing starts, completions and sales Wholesale sales or turnover, orders and stocks Retail sales or turnover, orders and stocks

Chapter 10: The balance of payments

Accounting conventions Exports of goods and services Imports of goods and services Trade balance, merchandise trade balance Current-account balance Capital- and financial-account flows International investment position (IIP) Official reserves External debt, net foreign assets

Chapter 11: Exchange rates

Nominal exchange rates Special drawing rights (SDRs) EMU, ecu, ERM and euro Effective exchange rates Real exchange rates; competitiveness Overview Terms of trade

Chapter 12: Money and financial markets

Money supply, money stock, M0 . . . M5, liquidity Bank lending, advances, credit, consumer credit Central bank policy rates Interest rates; short-term and money-market rates Bond yields Yield curves, gaps and ratios Real interest rates and yields Share prices

Chapter 13: Prices and wages

Price indicators Gold price Oil prices Commodity price indices Export and import prices; unit values Producer and wholesale prices Surveys of price expectations Wages, earnings and labour costs Unit labour costs Consumer or retail prices House prices Consumer or private expenditure deflators GDP deflators

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