For decades, the academic literature has focused on three survey measures of expected inflation: the Livingston Survey, the Survey of Professional Forecasters, and the Michigan Survey. While these measures have been useful in developing models of forecasting inflation, the data are low frequency...

In Albers & Albers (Spring, 2013) we demonstrated that the historic development of U.S. real GNP, 1869-present, may be structured in recurring 14-year periods. A steady-state rate of growth of 3.4969% is thereby calculated, generating an increase in real GNP proportional to the famous “Golden...

This research identifies the presence of long memory given return series of the stock markets in the ASEAN-4 countries, namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Daily stock prices from 1994 to 2004, which were neither adjusted for dividends nor inflation, were employed in the...