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Okunian

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Etymology

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From Okun +‎ -ian.

Adjective

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Okunian (comparative more Okunian, superlative most Okunian)

  1. (economics) Of or relating to Arthur Melvin Okun (1928–1980), American economist
    • 2020, Martin Boďa, Mariana Považanová, Formal and statistical aspects of estimating Okun's law at a regional level, Papers in Regional Science, volume 99, number 4:
      Confining to the difference version of Okun's law, the paper demonstrates that if a trade-off between output fluctuations and fluctuations in the labour market is to hold on an economy-wide level, a completely different specification of Okunian equations ensues for regions than is currently considered in research studies on the topic.