I analyze the relationship between interest rates and home sales in Turkey. I have obtained the related series form the websites of TCMB and TUIK. Here a subsample of the data: Below you can see a chart of the related series: What if we depict both series in a cartesian diagram while ‘number of homeContinue reading “Sample correlation coefficient: Interest rate vs. home sales in Turkey over Jan 13 – Oct 20”
Monthly Archives: December 2020
Starbucks (SBUX), monthly returns – 2019
In this post, I download the raw data of SBUX (from here) and play around with them in Python Jupyter Notebook. You can find the related code chunk at the end of this post. The raw data includes the following period: 13-12-2010 / 11-12-2020. The price for SBUX was at $ 16 in the beginningContinue reading “Starbucks (SBUX), monthly returns – 2019”
Supply function for eggs in the US 2008-09
In this post I analyze the association between egg production quantities and egg prices for 21 US states in 2008 and in 2009. Below you can see the dataset used in this study: I obtain the series from the internet site of the US, Department of Agriculture. Variables are as following: P = Price receivedContinue reading “Supply function for eggs in the US 2008-09”
ZEW -December 2020, mixing results
The ZEW Financial Market Survey has been conducted monthly since December 1991. It focuses on economic and financial situations of 5 advanced economies (Germany, the USA, Japan, the UK, France and Italy) plus Eurozone, while asking from about 350 financial analysts on their medium-term expectations for macroeconomics. According to the short summary of the researchContinue reading “ZEW -December 2020, mixing results”
Record growth in GDP for Japan
Japan, GDP Growth Annualized Final (Q3) data has been realized today (Dec 8, 2020). According to the latest observation [Q3 (including July-September) 2020] of the series, the Japanese economy has grown at 22.9 %. This increase is the highest number considering the official ‘Real, Seasonally Adjusted Series (Quarter-to-Quarter Percent Change, Annualized)’ sourced from https://www.esri.cao.go.jp/en/sna/data/sokuhou/files/2020/qe203_2/gdemenuea.html. GDPContinue reading “Record growth in GDP for Japan”
Marginal consumption propensity for the USA-1947-2020
I follow Gujarati’s book “Basic Econometrics”, he generate a model on marginal consumption propensity, so I thought, it would not be bad if I update it 👍. Data sources: Real gross domestic product (RGDP, as independent variable): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1 (Billions of Chained 2012 Dollars, Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate). Real personal consumption expenditures (RCON, as dependent variable):Continue reading “Marginal consumption propensity for the USA-1947-2020”
RETURN ON A STOCK
Daily returns (Buy and sell daily): In this post I will be covering how to calculate return on assets. As an example, I will study Amazon (AMZN) stock. Now, think that you bought a share of AMZN (stock) on 03 January 2017 for 753.67 USD. (p1 = 753.67). Next day (on 04 January 2017) theContinue reading “RETURN ON A STOCK”
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