Understanding business cycles
Subtitle: the indicators approach to forecasting for agility
Series: Conference Board report -- R-1519-13-RR.
Publisher: Conference Board
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
ISBN-13: 9780823710584
Subjects: Financial crises; Economic aspects; Business cycles; Econometric models
Description: "The collection of articles  ... in this compendium has a dual purpose: to address a nonexpert, business audience and to reach business team leaders responsible for or reporting to the functions of strategic planning, forecasting, market research, procurement, or business development. ... what defines a business cycle, the relationship between categories of economic and financial indicators, and how the analysis of some regularities that exist can provide better insight into how business cycles work." -- page 4.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Also available in PDF format via subscripton.
Table of contents: title: Crunching the numbers : forecasting for agility  -- Ataman Ozyildirim; title: Using the indicators approach to understand financial conditions and financial instability  -- Jean-Claude Manini and Ataman Ozyildirim; title: Coincident indicators and the dating of business cycles \ -- Victor Zarnowitz; title: Growth and business cycles \ -- Victor Zarnowitz; title: Business cycle indicator approach at the Conference Board  -- Ataman Ozyildirim; title: Some recent changes in economic growth, cycles, and volatility \ -- Victor Zarnowitz  and Ataman Ozyildirim; title: Comprehensive benchmark revisions for the Conference Board Leading Economic Index® for the United States -- Developing global indexes -- Historical trends and changes in international business cycles \-- Victor Zarnowitz.