Question

     Please explain what is the business cycle. Explain it, refer to it and clearly cite the authors covered in class

1. Please define, compare and contrast the meaning of: Expansion, recession, depression, manias, bubbles, boom, bust, and euphoria.

     Please explain one factor that can be responsible for a crisis in trade and a crisis in finance/banking.

2. Please pick one country

       Please plot/graph the business cycle. Make sure you cover at least the last cycle

       Please chose at the following indicator and explain it (leading, coincident, laggard, countercyclical, procyclical)

   Trade Balance:

   Unemployment

   PICK a third one of your interest

   Make sure you clearly document the origin of the data source.

   Make sure all numerical data are based on the same time frame

       Plot/graph these against the business cycle

       Please identify and explain at least 1 recessions and expansions found in your time series

   Make sure you use your economic indicators to document your explanation.

   Make sure you explain how and why these economic indicators justify your findings.

   Take this/these periods of time and analyze them making sure you explain at least 4 out of the 7 basic facts of the business cycle

   What is in your opinion the reason for at least ONE of the two recessions. Can you find an explanation for the “roots” of the recession?

- Was your recession accompanied by a depression?

- Do you think there was a “spirit of the time”? (please explain the meaning of this idea first)

       Finally, based on the data collected, please comment on the CURRENT economic situation of the country and what do you predict will happen to the economy of this country in the near future (let’s say 9 to 12 months) and why do you believe that is the case.

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