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December 1986

Sensitivity of BLS economic projections to exogenous variables

Norman C. Saunders

The 1995 macroeconomic model has been most responsive to changes in fiscal spending and to changes in foreign economic activity; assumptions regarding energy have had little effect on the estimates.

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