By Dr. David L. Blond, Principle Researcher and President, QuERI-International. QuERI International helps businesses and governments quantify the world through use of sophisticated and integrated econometric modeling and forecasting. Based on over forty years of economic forecasting experience, QuERI’s proprietary models cover 72 countries and 166 ISIC 3 industries and commodities with all data based on a consistent definition, and units of account. Learn more about QuERI-International here.
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Based on the original article by Dr. David L. Blond, Principle Researcher and President, QuERI-International. QuERI International helps businesses and governments quantify the world through use of sophisticated and integrated econometric modeling and forecasting. Based on over 40 years of economic forecasting experience, QuERI’s proprietary models cover 72 countries and 166 ISIC 3 industries and commodities with all data based on a consistent definition and units of account. Learn more about QuERI-International here.
Introduction COVID-19 is unrelenting. Economies are teetering on the brink of further collapse while also considering fresh restrictions to manage the health crisis until help arrives in the form of a vaccine. But, economies are not static. The COVID-19 pandemic is like no other of the post-World War II period and so is and will be …
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Introduction In early 2020 economists and statisticians faced a similar problem as 90 years ago in the very beginning of the Great Depression. After the economy collapsed in the fourth quarter of 1929 the US government needed to find a way to measure the magnitude of the recession. Fast forward to the late 1930s and …
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