The goal of this empirical project is to test the validity of three economic models - The General Monetary, The Purchasing Power Parity and The Interest Rate Parity models in Turkey - basing on quarterly data for the period 1975 - 1999. The project takes into account the serious economic shocks...

We argue for the resurrection of an old idea: electricity use as an indicator of U.S. economic activity. Our analysis relies on associations - the 40-year correlation between growth rates in real GDP and electricity use can be as high as 89% - and intuition. Electricity use and economic...