Mongolia: Measuring the Output Gap

April 1, 2011

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Julia Bersch, and Tara M. Sinclair Mongolia: Measuring the Output Gap, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed July 15, 2025

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Summary

This paper compares the output gap estimates for Mongolia based on a number of different methods. Special attention is paid to the substantial role of mining in the Mongolian economy. We find that a Blanchard and Quah-type joint model of output and inflation provides a more robust estimate of the output gap for Mongolia than the traditional statistical decompositions.

Subject: Business cycles, Inflation, Non-renewable resources, Output gap, Potential output

Keywords: Economy, GDP, Output gap estimate, Output gap measure, WP

Publication Details

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16
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Working Paper No. 2011/079
Stock No:

WPIEA2011079
ISBN:

9781455226092
ISSN:

1018-5941

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