Q4 2012 Global Risk Analysis from BBVA

by Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev, TrueEconomics.Blogspot.in Editor’s note: Global Economic Intersection welcomes Dr. Gurdgiev as a guest author. Constantin is an “embedded economist” in the Irish front lines, lecturing at Trinity College, Dublin. He brings us an insider’s view of what is going on in the world from an Irish point of view. Dr. Gurdgiev uses a relatively new analytical tool, heat maps, to show variation of parameters over time. These matrix analysis and display tools will be seen more and more on GEI pages from now on. They are becoming very useful in the analysis of time variation of economic parameters and for investment portfolio relationships. Analysis of the time variation of financial and economic data is a long overdue addition to the tool box of economic modelers and portfolio managers alike.   Read more »