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Alternative Methods of Estimating Potential Output and the Output Gap: An Application to Sweden

By Sweta Chaman Saxena, Valerie Cerra

March 1, 2000

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Sweta Chaman Saxena, and Valerie Cerra. Alternative Methods of Estimating Potential Output and the Output Gap: An Application to Sweden, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed September 19, 2024
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Summary

This paper reviews a number of different methods that can be used to estimate potential output and the output gap. Measures of potential output and the output gap are useful to help identify the scope for sustainable noninflationary growth and to allow an assessment of the stance of macroeconomic policies. The paper then compares results from some of these methods to the case of Sweden, showing the range of estimates.

Subject: Inflation, Labor, Output gap, Potential output, Prices, Production, Unemployment, Unemployment rate

Keywords: Business Cycles, Constructed output gap, Demand shock, Detrending, Economic theory, HP filter, Inflation, Output Gap, Output gap estimate, Potential Output, Price level, Production function, Production function approach, Sweden, Unemployment, Unemployment rate, Unobserved Components Models, Vector Autoregression, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    33

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2000/059

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0592000

  • ISBN:

    9781451847932

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Sweta Chaman Saxena is from the University of Pittsburgh.