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Estimates of Potential Output and the Neutral Rate for the U.S. Economy

ByAli Alichi, Rania A. Al-Mashat, Hayk Avetisyan, Jaromir Benes, Olivier Bizimana, Aram Butavyan, Robert Ford, Narek Ghazaryan, Vahagn Grigoryan, Mane Harutyunyan, Anahit Hovhannisyan, Edgar Hovhannisyan, Hayk Karapetyan, Mariam Kharaishvili, Douglas Laxton, Akaki Liqokeli, Karolina Matikyan, Gevorg Minasyan, Shalva Mkhatrishvili, Armen Nurbekyan, Andrei Orlov, Babken Pashinyan, Garik Petrosyan, Yekaterina Rezepina, Aleksandr Shirkhanyan, Tamta Sopromadze, Lusine Torosyan, Erik Vardanyan, Hou Wang, Jiaxiong Yao

July 6, 2018

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Ali Alichi, Rania A. Al-Mashat, Hayk Avetisyan, Jaromir Benes, Olivier Bizimana, Aram Butavyan, Robert Ford, Narek Ghazaryan, Vahagn Grigoryan, Mane Harutyunyan, Anahit Hovhannisyan, Edgar Hovhannisyan, Hayk Karapetyan, Mariam Kharaishvili, Douglas Laxton, Akaki Liqokeli, Karolina Matikyan, Gevorg Minasyan, Shalva Mkhatrishvili, Armen Nurbekyan, Andrei Orlov, Babken Pashinyan, Garik Petrosyan, Yekaterina Rezepina, Aleksandr Shirkhanyan, Tamta Sopromadze, Lusine Torosyan, Erik Vardanyan, Hou Wang, and Jiaxiong Yao. "Estimates of Potential Output and the Neutral Rate for the U.S. Economy", IMF Working Papers 2018, 152 (2018), accessed 12/5/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484366325.001

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Summary

Estimates of potential output and the neutral short-term interest rate play important roles in policy making. However, such estimates are associated with significant uncertainty and subject to significant revisions. This paper extends the structural multivariate filter methodology by adding a monetary policy block, which allows estimating the neutral rate of interest for the U.S. economy. The addition of the monetary policy block further improves the reliability of the structural multivariate filter.

Subject: Capacity utilization, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Monetary policy, Output gap, Potential output, Prices, Production, Real interest rates

Keywords: Capacity utilization, Global, Inflation, inflation expectation, Inflation targeting, Macroeconomic Modeling, monetary policy, monetary policy block, MPMOD output gap, Neutral Rate, Output gap, output gap equation, Potential Output, reaction function, WP

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