[UNDERSTANDING,THE,TSP,INVESTMENT,FUNDS]!3 Visit: www.FEDweek.com Investment Records of the TSP Funds The accompanying table shows the returns for funds since 1988, the first year of operation for the C and F funds (the G fund started operating in 1987), rounded to the nearest tenth of a percentage point.
Economic Analysis. The application of data to a theory of how people produce, trade, and use goods and services. One may use both qualitative and quantitative tools in economic analysis. For example, given a theory of what causes unemployment, an economic analyst may take the data in an attempt to find its true causes and compare them to the original theory.
Economic analysis of law applies the tools of microeconomic theory to the analysis of legal rules and institutions. Ronald Coase [1960] and Guido Calabresi [1961] are generally identified as the seminal articles but Commons [1924] and Hale [1952] among others had brought economic thinking to the study of law in the 1910s and 1920s.