An overview of the macroeconomic forecasting industry in the United States that explains and evaluates the forecasting techniques used to make predictions about various aspects of the national economy.
Professor Elia Kacapyr is currently a lecturer at Ithaca College (NY). The main areas Kacapyr's expertise include: macro economic forecasts, GDP, interest rates and inflation, and "recent research (which includes 45 years of data) traces the indexes of" well being "combining economic data with data on the environment, health, society and technology , to come up with one number for the Index of American Progress ".
"Economic Forecasting" is a textbook published in 1996. Elia Kacapyr gathered in one place the most important techniques of macroeconomic forecasts: Business Cycles Long Waves Time-Series Techniques Econometric Models described them, compared under a criterion of error, then evaluate. The book is addressed to students of forecasting.