Option 3 - 7 quarters
As can be seen from the picture, that it took almost 7 quarters for the real GDP to rise 2% above its local peak. The real GDP in Q4 2000 is around 13260 and 2% of it would mean 265 and an increase of 265 means the real GDP becomes13525. Hence in Q3 2002 it is more than 13525 and it takes 7 quarters to rise 2%.
Question 15 0.1 pts Go the FRED website, then find and download Real GDP (Quarterly, Seasonally...
(1) Playing with data: Download quarterly, seasonally adjusted data on US real GDP, personal consumption expenditures, and gross private domestic investment for the period 1947q1 - 2010q2. You can download these series from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) or the St. Louis Fed FRED database. (a) Take the natural logarithm of each series (ì=ln(series)î in Excel) and plot each against time. Which series appears to move around the most? Which series appears to move around the least? (b) The...
Question 2 The following table shows quarterly data of U.S. nominal and real GDP in 2018. Use the information to calculate items (a), (b), and (c): 2018 01 20,04120,411.9 02 | 03 20,658.2 18,511.6 18,665 Nominal GDP (billions of dollars Real GDP (billions of 2012 dollars)18,3241 a. (2 points) Calculate the growth rate of nominal GDP in second and third quarters of b. (2 points) Calculate the growth rate of real GDP in second and third quarters of 2018. 2018....
2. Download the annual real GDP and GDP data of the United States 1950-2018 from FRED. For the real GDP, the data online is chain-weighted and uses 2012 as the base year. In the lecture hursday, I showed you the detailed method and calculated the new chain-weighted real GDP when 1990 is the base year. You are required to calculate a new sequence of chain- weighted real GDP given a new base-year. The base year you should use in your...
• 1. What are the quarterly growth rates (Percentage Change From Preceding Period in Real Gross Domestic Product) for the U.S. economy for the last six quarters? Report those numbers in your submission 2. What is the average of those 6 quarters? . 3. Is the average of those growth rates above or below the long-run U.S. annual growth rate of 3.5 percent? Bureau of Economke Analysis Table 1.1.1. Percent Change From Preceding Period in Real Gross Domestic Product Percent...
**This question has been asked and answered once already with OLD data, please note you will need to visit the website below as stated in the question or go by the table/chart provided at the bottom** Visit the Bureau of Economics Analysis website at www.bea.gov. From the drop-down menu under "Data", click on "by Economics Account". Then click on "National", "Gross Domestic Product" and "Full Release and Tables". Use table 3 (Gross Domestic Product: Level and Change from Preceding Period)....
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