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Economic expansion and contraction refer to the overall output of all goods and services, while the terms "inflation" and "deflation" refer to rising and falling prices of commodities, goods and services in relation to the value of money. [4] From a microeconomic standpoint, expansion usually means enlarging the scale of a single company or ...
A 2009 study of the 1983–1986 Denmark fiscal contraction applied structural VAR/event study methodology to test the EFC hypothesis. This study concluded that the Danish fiscal contraction had not hurt economic expansion, that the EFC hypothesis may work but only for large and credible fiscal consolidations, and that other reforms may have also played an important role.
The credit cycle is the expansion and contraction of access to credit over time. [1] Some economists, including Barry Eichengreen, Hyman Minsky, and other Post-Keynesian economists, and members of the Austrian school, regard credit cycles as the fundamental process driving the business cycle.
This expansion coincided with the Korean War, after which the Federal Reserve initiated more restrictive monetary policy. The slowdown in economic activity led to the recession of 1953, bringing an end to nearly four years of expansion. May 1954– Aug 1957 39 +2.5% +4.0%: Expansion resumed following a return to growth in May 1954.
The manufacturing sector had been in contraction for more than two years. This could be a bullish development for stocks, Fundstrat head of research Tom Lee recently said in Yahoo Finance's Chartbook.
An expansion is the period from a trough to a peak and a recession as the period from a peak to a trough. The NBER identifies a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production". [26]
A version of this post first appeared on TKer.co. Stocks closed lower last week with the S&P 500 shedding 1.1%. The index is now up 14.6% year to date, up 23% from its October 12 closing low of ...
A recession is defined as two consecutive three-month periods of economic contraction. The Bank now expects the economy to grow by just 0.1% between January and March, down from the 0.3% it had ...