LORÍA, EDUARDO; BRITO, L. - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 22 (2004) Diciembre, pp. 1-15
The United States (U.S.) Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) has been widely and unambiguously regarded as a good ‘predictor’ of the U.S.’s private investment and consumption. In order to demonstrate such with statistical rigor, co-integration and Granger causality tests were applied for...