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Collect the quarterly data for GDP and the unemployment rate for total OECD economies from 2007Q1 to 2020Q3 from OECD

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Collect the quarterly data for GDP and the unemployment rate for total OECD economies from 2007Q1 to 2020Q3 from OECD.Stat. Produce a scatterplot of percentage point changes in GDP and the unemployment rate (from peak to trough) over the course of the Great Recession. Answer the following questions (with special reference of current COVID 19 situation): (a) Describe briefly what the graph shows. (b) Does the data support Okun's Law (i.e. an Okun coefficient of —0.5)? (c) If not, then suggest some factors that might account for the differences in Okun coefficients observed across the OECD economies