The business cycle involves four stages of a product's life: introduction, growth, maturity and decline. The product life cycle business concept is contingent on a few assumptions, including the idea ...

A business cycle refers to the periodic expansion and contraction a company experiences. While the concept often is used in relation to the larger economy, its phases have applications to each ...

The “business cycle” might just be one of the oldest ideas in economics. For more than 200 years, economists have been pointing to the tendency of economies to expand, then slow down, contract and ...

The economy is always in a state of flux, moving through periods of growth and recession, and after both, a full business cycle is complete. That cycle can be broken down further into four stages: ...

This is the second in a series called Behavioral Finance and Macroeconomics. We will explore the effect behavior has on markets and the economy as a whole--and how advisors who understand this ...

The idea that business cycle fluctuations may stem partly from changes in consumer and business confidence is controversial. One way to test the idea is to use professional economic forecasts to ...

This paper proposes a very tractable approach to modeling changes in regime. The parameters of an autoregression are viewed as the outcome of a discrete-state Markov process. For example, the mean ...

Consumer spending is a coincident-to-lagging indicator, not a leading one, so it’s a poor tool for forecasting the business cycle. Durable goods consumption is the most cyclical and informative ...

One of the keys to owning a successful small business is understanding what goes into a sale. While one's product or service might be newer, faster, prettier, bolder, or trend setting, sales are ...