Consulting: Economic Advisory Services
Extensive expertise and data into client-specific actionable information.
Overview
Our consulting services allow clients to direct Moody's Economy.com’s extensive expertise and data into client-specific actionable information. Many of our projects use the client’s own data and information from outside sources to determine the sales opportunities and/or risks involved in particular product lines. Other projects involve tailoring our off-the-shelf research products and models to better match a client’s specific industry or regional exposure; analyzing and estimating the long-term economic development potential of a particular metropolitan area or state; and presenting standard or customized forecasts to clients and their customers. Moody's Economy.com works closely with clients at each stage of the project to ensure that the client’s expectations are met.
Project Examples
Moody's Economy.com consulting assignments most commonly fall under the following categories:
- Client Presentations
- Consumer Credit Analysis
- Economic Development Analysis
- Market Analysis
- Product Line Forecasting
Client Presentations
Moody's Economy.com Senior Economists are available to speak to your company's employees and/or to your company's clients. Our senior staff has extensive experience in making presentations on a variety of topics to senior corporate management, boards of directors, trade associations, and to our customer's clients.
Consumer Credit Analysis
- Capabilities in credit card consulting
- Determine the impact of various economic scenarios on the credit quality performance of client's home equity line, home equity loan, and installment loan portfolios.
- Determine the impact of economic conditions on client's unbanked secured credit lines, unsecured credit lines, and home equity lines portfolios, and use the estimated relationships to forecast various credit quality measures under three economic scenarios.
- Developing an "early-warning system" for various measures of credit card performance.
- Developing a loan loss forecasting model for the credit card portfolio.
- Incorporating economic information on geographic areas into a credit acceptance model to aid the client's decision process for targeting new geographic areas.
- Develop and maintain a forecasting model for Credit Information Services.
Economic Development Analysis
- Analysis of economic vitality.
- Identifying the changes in land use and urban sprawl at the state level.
- Identifying the industries that are contributing to economic development at the state level.
- Develop an optimal pricing model for business to consumer directories.
- To determine the outlook for business demand for various types of telecommunications equipment by vertical market and region.
Market Analysis
- Track supply and demand conditions in four commercial real estate markets, both nationally and for 80 metropolitan markets.
- Identify favorable metro areas for acquisition of mid-sized homebuilders.
- To estimate the number of business establishments for eighty vertical markets in order to estimate the installed base of PCs.
- Evaluate the outlook for the legal/accounting/consulting industry.
- Determine the outlook for new entry-level single family housing.
- Identification of potential future high-technology centers.
- Develop an asset allocation model for stocks, bonds, and cash.
- Evaluate the outlook and risks for the finance company industry.
Product Line Forecasting
- Developing an optimal pricing model for various business to consumer directories.
- Determine the impact of various economic scenarios on the credit quality performance of client's home equity line, home equity loan, and installment loan portfolios.
- To indentify the changes in land use and urban sprawl at the state level.
- Determine the impact of economic conditions on client's unbanked secured credit lines, unsecured credit lines, and home equity lines portfolios, and use the estimated relationships to forecast various credit quality measures under three economic scenarios.
- Track supply and demand conditions in four commercial real estate markets, both nationally and for 80 metropolitan markets.
- To indentify the industries that are contributing to economic development at the state level.
- Identify favorable metro areas for acquisition of mid-sized homebuilders.
- To estimate the number of business establishments for eighty vertical markets in order to estimate the installed base of PCs.
- Develop and maintain a forecasting model for credit information services.
- Evaluate the outlook for the legal/accounting/consulting industry.
- Determine the outlook for new entry-level single family housing.
- Identification of potential future high-technology centers.
- Evaluate the outlook and risks for the finance company industry.
- To develop an "early-warning system" for various measures of credit card performance.
- Develop a loan loss forecasting model for the credit card portfolio.
- Incorporate economic information on geographic areas into a credit acceptance model to aid the client's decision process for targeting new geographic areas.
- Develop an asset allocation model for stocks, bonds, and cash.
- To determine the outlook for business demand for various types of telecommunications equipment by vertical market and region.


