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- 首页 >> Database1. The USDA has tasked you with evaluating changes in the price of cereals and bakery products sold at retail (in the grocery store).
(a) [10 pts] Collect the Consumer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (CUUR0000SAF111).
Your download should include every month between 1990 and August 2024.
(b) [10 pts] What type of index is used to develop this series?
(c) [10 pts] Where might you find alternative series?
(d) [10 pts] Plot the data and describe. Are there any periods where the series changed in an obvious way? Which historical events might these changes align with?
(e) [10 pts] Estimate the percent price change between January 2020 and January 2024. How does this compare to the percent price change between January 2016 and January 2020?
2. You have been asked to evaluate how corn markets and production changed following the implemen- tation of the renewable fuel standard (RFS). You will have to develop a theoretical model(s), locate data, and analyze that data.
(a) [10 pts] Citing at least one peer-reviewed source, briefly describe RFS effect on U.S. corn markets.
(b) [10 pts] Develop a theoretical model of how you expect the change described in part (a) to influence economic decisions.
(c) [10 pts] Identify, extract, and assess at least one data source describing changes in a relevant output market(s). Cite your source(s).
(d) [10 pts] Identify, extract, and assess at least one data source describing changes in a relevant input market(s). Cite your source(s). Statistics or econometrics can be helpful but are not required.
(e) Describe how your data support or contradict the theoretical model described in part (b).