3. Plot a graph of quarterly data for real GDP and fullemployment GDP from 1970 to the...

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3. Plot a graph of quarterly data for real GDP and fullemployment GDP from 1970 to the present. (In the FRED database, full-employment GDP is called Real Potential GDP.) Which variable is “smoother”? Can you pick out the dates of recessions (1973–1975, 1980, 1981–1982, 1990–1991, 2001, and 2007–2009) on the graph?

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Macroeconomics

ISBN: 126164

8th Edition

Authors: Andrew B. Abel, Ben Bernanke, Dean Croushore

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