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• a  of or relating to econometrics
  econometric theories

• For the past generation, Washington policymakers have based their economic projections on econometric models.
• Using econometric modeling techniques to build a "supply-and-demand" theory of murder, Ehrlich argued in a 1975 paper that capital punishment prevents more murders than do prison .
• For years econometric models were largely ignored by Establishment economists, who preferred to predict business trends on the basis of their own intuition and a few blackboard .

News & Articles

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• Georgia factories continue to slow
  ATLANTA - An index of Georgia manufacturing activity fell for the third month in a row, Kennesaw State University's Econometric Center announced Monday. The Purchasing Managers Index dropped 1.7 points in June to 52.1. That is 3.
  July 1, 2013 - Athens Banner-Herald

Quotes

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• Ben Bernanke in BusinessWeek
  You have a very full agenda for the next two days,Bernanke warned. "The topics represent a good mix of theoretical work as well as empirical work based on both calibration and econometric estimation."
• Joe Biden in U.S. News & World Report
  The Government as I said in Parliament on Monday had conflicting advice before it. We took the advice of the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission), because the ACCC was the only body which had done econometric modelling on the... Kevin Rudd http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Rudd&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFR87s_UH5-PqadVdNSEDyNX5oZIA ABC Online http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/28/2258668.htm%3Fsection%3Dbusiness&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE75JlJOcd9_o-wwx7CqK1awl4mmw May 28, 2008 31475 40545 econometric Biden answered, Yes, look, there's an econometric model that, that economists have been using for decades to correlate the economic circumstances of the nation with the creation of jobs. It is a model known as question, it's a model the Council of...