A two-component model for the evolution of real GDP per capita in the USA is presented and tested. The first component … between the growth rate of real GDP per capita and the number of 9-year-olds in the USA is tested for cointegration. For … cointegrating relation. Econometrically, the tests for cointegration show that the deviations of real economic growth in the USA …

In this article recession magnitudes in Europe, the USA and Japan during the Great Recession are compared. The … strongest recessions (of severe category) occurred in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, while recessions in Japan and the USA were …-1933 in the USA. Hence, comparisons of the Great Recession to the Great Depression in the literature are somewhat exaggerated. …