Study: Models that forecast impact of government spending are easily manipulated

Thursday, May 4, 2017 - 11:31 in Mathematics & Economics

Economists at North Carolina State University and Indiana University have found that the most widely used model for predicting how U.S. government spending affects gross domestic product (GDP) can be rigged using theoretical assumptions to control forecasts of how government spending will stimulate the economy.

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