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MOODY’S MEGA MATH CHALLENGE. TEAM #058. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Section Effectiveness Expected Timeline of Results A Second Stimulus?. Roots of The Crisis. $787bn Stimulus Package. Increase consumer spending Buoy up Asset Prices Restore lending Preserve jobs.
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MOODY’S MEGA MATH CHALLENGE TEAM #058
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Section Effectiveness Expected Timeline of Results A Second Stimulus?
$787bn Stimulus Package • Increase consumer spending • Buoy up Asset Prices • Restore lending • Preserve jobs
Stimulus Effectiveness How many jobs will the stimulus save?
How will the stimulus create jobs? • Direct employment: The ‘First Wave’ • Indirect employment: The ‘Second Wave’
Local Assumptions Standard Industry Classifications Accurate Multipliers
- 1,184,026 First Wave Jobs Created Money Invested Direct Employment Jobs
Indirect Employment Job Creation
The Multiplier Effect • Infinite timeframe • MPC Unknown • Estimates by Mark Zandi (Moody’s Economy.com)
Okun’s Law • Growth rate form of Okun’s law • Relates real ΔGDP to Δunemployment • Empirical observation ∆u = -0.01365236
-1,947,220 Second Wave Jobs Created Money Invested Indirect Employment Jobs
- 3,131,246 Total Jobs Created Money Invested Total Employment Jobs
Historical Analysis 1930s; 1960s; 1980s
Local Assumptions • Current recession can be modeled from previous ones • 1930s • 1960s • 1980s • Low-range extrapolation possible
Modeling Unemployment in Recessionary Times Anticipated unemployment rate: ~6.2%
Great Depression Model Error Analysis • Regression assumptions and conditions met for a t-distribution • Standard error of slope: • Error in the slope for 95% confidence interval: ME = ± 2*0.513*2.365 = ±1.215 • Interval for the slope: [0.512, 2.942]