GDP Growth, Potential Output, and Output Gaps in Mexico

May 1, 2005

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Ebrima A Faal. GDP Growth, Potential Output, and Output Gaps in Mexico, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

This paper analyzes the sources of Mexico's economic growth since the 1960s and compares various decompositions of historical growth into its trend and cyclical components. The role of the implied output gaps in the inflationary process is then assessed. Looking ahead, the paper presents medium-term paths for GDP based on alternative assumptions for productivity growth rates. The results indicate that the most important factor underlying the slowdown in output growth was a decline in trend total factor productivity growth. Economic policy reforms and the introduction of NAFTA may have raised trend productivity growth in recent years. Further increases in productivity growth would appear necessary, however, to raise medium-term growth.

Subject: Inflation, Output gap, Potential output, Production growth, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Production function, Real GDP, TFP growth, WP

Publication Details

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30
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Working Paper No. 2005/093
Stock No:

WPIEA2005093
ISBN:

9781451861129
ISSN:

1018-5941

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