ABSTRACT
This title was first published in 1990. A collection of essays on Business Cycles, celebrating Geoffrey H. Moore on his 75th birthday, who joined the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1939 and was also Professor Emeriutus at New York University. He progressed through many levels research assistant, staff member, associate director of research, director of research, vice president of research, director of business cycle research, and most recently membership on the Bureau’s Board of Directors and its Executive and other Committees. Moore ws prominenty involved in the creation, development, and continuing improvement of a system of leading, lagging, and coincident indicators was an achievement of greatest importance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|22 pages
Introduction
part II|34 pages
Analyzing Business Cycles Today
part III|50 pages
Current Assessment of Cyclical Indicators
part IV|67 pages
The Usefulness of Indicators in Economic Forecasting
part V|54 pages
Cyclical Indicators and Their Applications: Current Methodological Issues
part VI|73 pages
Recent Business Cycle Research: Implications for Theory and Policy