In my last post I introduced a heat map of the top individual economic indicators and how the heat maps are a very simple yet useful way at looking at the overall state of the economy. In this post, I ...

The White House Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ’s) Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) 1 is an example of a geospatial tool that calculates a composite indicator. A composite ...

Capital flows data from Balance of Payments statistics often lag 3-6 months, which renders timely surveillance and policy deliberation difficult. To address the tension, we propose two coincident ...

Going into 2016, this popular composite indicator had a 65%-74% accuracy rate. It bombed in 2016. Should investors ignore or explore it for 2017? This indicator is made up of three components: the ...

We explore the early warning properties of a composite indicator which summarizes signals from a range of asset price growth and asset price volatility indicators to capture mispricing of risk in ...

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