Chapter 11 Data Apps

The IS Curve

Explore the data of Chapter 11 without any code. Every chart below is live: hover over it to read the values, and use its buttons, menus and sliders to change what it shows.

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See also: Chapter 11 Model Apps, the chapter’s models without code.

Microfoundations: consumption and fiscal policy

Fig. 6: Unemployment forecasts from the Congressional Budget Office

Switch between the textbook’s window and all the data with the buttons; the dashed lines are forecasts and the circles the actual rate.

Sources. Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, Unemployment Rate (UNRATE), via FRED; forecasts: Congressional Budget Office, “Estimated Macroeconomic Impacts of H.R. 1 as Passed by the House and by the Senate”, letter to Senator Judd Gregg, 11 February 2009, Table 1. Prepared file: data/ch11/fig11-6.csv (see the data notes). Chart: inspired by Fig. 11.6 in Jones (2024), Macroeconomics, 6th ed.