The North Carolina Economic Survey 2000
WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

Foreword: ROBERT F. MULLIGAN

Regional Studies

North Carolina Unemployment: a Forecast for 2000-2005 JEFF ALLEN

A Two-Year Forecast of Unemployment in South Carolina PETE EICH

Predicting Kentucky GSP Trends using Monthly Unemployment Rates: a Simple Keynesian Approach CALEB DECKER

How Tennessee Unemployment is Affected by Inflation VALERIE METZ and MICHELLE LOFTUS

A Two-year Forecast of Georgia Unemployment based on Inflation CHRIS ELBERT

Mississippi Running Rebels Losing in Employment Race JEREMY JONES

Aggregate Output, Expenditures, and Income

A Two-year Forecast of U.S. Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) based on Net Exports (NX) YE YANG

A Two-year Forecast of U.S. Industrial Production based on the Keynesian Investment Function AMBER HEAD and MINDY HOVIS

2000-2001 Forecast:  U.S. Gross Domestic Product using Real Private Nonresidential Fixed Investment BRENDA LUTHER and JILL FRANKLIN

Aggregate Consumption and Savings

A Two Year Forecast of U.S. Consumption Expenditure KEVIN GREENE and LESLIE JOHNSTON

U.S Savings Forecast based on Unemployment MATT SORRELS

U.S. Unemployment

How will Investment Spending and Interest Rates affect Unemployment in the Next Seven Years? TRACI PUDELSKI and ERIK EKEBERG

A Two-year Forecast of Unemployment based on Inflation Rates CANDICE AMMONS

United States Unemployment 2005 based on Inflation and Interest Rates DAVID PARKS

Business and Financial Conditions

A Two Year Forecast of Interest Rates BROOK BEASLEY and SHANNON CANTER

Two-year Forecast of Money Supply based on the Quantity Theory JACK METCALF and JASON SPAINHOUR

Consumer Price Index: An Outlook for the Year 2001 KEN HILL

U.S. Inflation Rates and Unemployment: a Forecast for 2000-2001 HELEN CALLAHAN

Housing Markets and Mortgage Lending

Forecasting 30-year Fixed Mortgage Rates based on Lagged New Housing Starts RYAN DONNELEY

U.S. Housing Starts Through 2001: a Forecast Using Lagged Housing Starts and the Industrial Production Index CHRIS LASSITER

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

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