Two New Indexes Offer a Broad View of Economic Activity in the New York-New Jersey Region

Orr, James; Rich, Robert W.; Rosen, Rae D.

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Two New Indexes Offer a Broad View of Economic Activity in the New York-New Jersey Region

Current Issues in Economics and Finance Vol. 5, No. 14, October 1999

6 Pages Posted: 26 Jun 2007

See all articles by James Orr

Rae D. Rosen

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Date Written: October 1999

Abstract

The authors develop two coincident indexes that provide a comprehensive measure of economic activity in New Jersey, New York State, and New York City.

Keywords: coincident index, Kalman filter, activity measures, regional cycles

JEL Classification: C32, E32, R00

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Orr, James and Rich, Robert W. and Rosen, Rae D., Two New Indexes Offer a Broad View of Economic Activity in the New York-New Jersey Region (October 1999). Current Issues in Economics and Finance Vol. 5, No. 14, October 1999, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=996056 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.996056