Transportation indicators and business cycles / edited by Kajal Lahiri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lahiri, Kajal.

Series:

Contributions to economic analysis ; v. 289.

Contributions to economic analysis, 0573-8555 ; v. 289

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation.

Transportation--Finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Transportation Indicators and Business Cycles recognises the important role the transportation sector plays in business cycle propagation and develops indicators for this sector to identify its current state, and predict its future. The reference cycle is defined, including 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 models. A one-to-one correspondence between cycles in the transportation sector and those in the aggregate economy is found. It also constructs an index of leading indicators for the transportation sector using rigorous statistical procedures, and performs well as a forecasting tool.

Contents:

Transportation Services Index (TSI) and its characteristics / Kajal Lahiri

Coincident Index of the transportation sector and its linkages to the economy / Kajal Lahiri

Leading indicators for the U.S. transportation sector / Kajal Lahiri

TSI as a part of the Coincident Indicators System / Kajal Lahiri

Transportation indicators : summary and concluding remarks / Kajal Lahiri.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786612888137

9781282888135

1282888137

9780857241481

0857241486

OCLC:

682627478