1. Introduction At the quarterly frequency, GDP is regarded as the most important single economic series representing the state of the economy. However, at monthly frequency, there is no single economic series which can cover the overall activities of the economy. The Conference Board's Composite Index of Coincident Indicators (CCI), a composite index of employment, income, output and sales, is...

kazakhstan was the last soviet republic to declare independence. but after the soviet collapse, the country seeks to rebuild its national identity and make economic reforms. changing political and economic structures in these countries due to its high dependence on moscow was not easy. in the early years of independence due to the asian financial crisis the country was faced with severe economi...

To identify disruptions in credit markets, research on the role of asset prices in economic fluctuations has focused on the information content of various corporate credit spreads. We re-examine this evidence using a broad array of credit spreads constructed directly from the secondary bond prices on outstanding senior unsecured debt issued by a large panel of nonfinancial firms. An advantage o...

The study provides a framework to develop economic resilience index for West Virginia counties based on the premise that county economic resilience depends on its physical and human resources, structure and diversity of its economic base (employment and income diversity), entrepreneurial activity and business dynamics and scale and proximity (spatial issues). Using 17 indicators along four of t...