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Understanding Business Cycles
In this course, you will learn the following:
- Business cycles
- Typical patterns of resource use fluctuation, housing sector activity, and external trade sector activity, as an economy moves through the business cycle
- Theories of the business cycle
- Types of unemployment and measures of unemployment
- Inflation, hyperinflation, deflation and disinflation
- The construction of indices used to measure inflation and its limitations
- Cost-push vs. demand-pull inflation
- Uses and limitations of economic indicators
- Identifying past, current and future business cycle phase of an economy based on economic indicators
In this course, you will learn the following:
- Business cycles
- Typical patterns of resource use fluctuation, housing sector activity, and external trade sector activity, as an economy moves through the business cycle
- Theories of the business cycle
- Types of unemployment and measures of unemployment
- Inflation, hyperinflation, deflation and disinflation
- The construction of indices used to measure inflation and its limitations
- Cost-push vs. demand-pull inflation
- Uses and limitations of economic indicators
- Identifying past, current and future business cycle phase of an economy based on economic indicators
Course Syllabus
What's Included:
eBook in PDF format
All code files used in the book
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Course Resources
Understanding Business Cycles
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Course Quizzes
Understanding Business Cycles
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Quiz on 'Understanding Business Cycles'.
This quiz is a part of the CFA Level 1 reading 'Understanding Business Cycles'.
Topics Covered
Financial Analysis