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R. Andrew Butters

Assistant Professor, Kelley School of Business at Indiana University

R. Andrew Butters is a consultant in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is an assistant professor at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Chicago Fed Letter
Looking Down the Road with ALEX: Forecasting U.S. GDP
Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters, Michael Fogarty | 2020 | No. 447 | October Download
The Stay-at-Home Labor Market: Google Searches, Unemployment Insurance, and Public Health Orders
Daniel Aaronson, Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters, Michael Fogarty | 2020 | No. 436 | May Download
Estimating the Trend Rate of Economic Growth Using the CFNAI
Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters | 2013 | No. 311 | June Download
Detecting Early Signs of Financial Instability
Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters | 2012 | No. 305 | December Download
Chicago Fed National Activity Index Turns Ten—Analyzing Its First Decade of Performance
Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters | 2010 | No. 273 | April Download
Economic Perspectives
A New “Big Data” Index of U.S. Economic Activity
Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters, David Kelley | 2019 | Vol. 43 | No. 1 | February Download
Nowcasting Using the Chicago Fed National Activity Index
Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters | 2014 | Vol. 38 Download
Monitoring Financial Stability: A Financial Conditions Index Approach
Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters | 2011 | Vol. 35 | No. 1 Download
What Is the Relationship between Large Deficits and Inflation in Industrialized Countries?
Marco Bassetto, R. Andrew Butters | 2010 | Vol. 34 | No. 3 | 3rd Quarter Download
Preannounced Tax Cuts and Their Potential Influence on the 2001 Recession
R. Andrew Butters, Marcelo Veracierto | 2009 | Vol. 33 | No. 3 | 3rd Quarter Download

Working Papers
The perils of working with Big Data and a SMALL framework you can use to avoid them (REVISED March 2, 2021)
Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters, Michael Fogarty | 2020 | No. 2020-35 | December Download
Using the Eye of the Storm to Predict the Wave of Covid-19 UI Claims (REVISED April 2020)
Daniel Aaronson, Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters, Daniel Sacks, Boyoung Seo | 2020 | No. 2020-10 | April Download
Forecasting Economic Activity with Mixed Frequency Bayesian VARs (Revised July 2018)
Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters, Alejandro Justiniano | 2016 | No. 2016-05 Download
Gathering Insights on the Forest from the Trees: A New Metric for Financial Conditions
Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters | 2010 | No. 2010-07 | January Download

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