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Economic Definition of exogenous variable. Defined.

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Term exogenous variable Definition: A variable that is identified outside the workings of the model. Also termed an independent variable, an exogenous variable is in essence the "input" of the model. It should be compared with an endogenous variable this is the "output" of the model.

 

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