Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper extends the multivariate filter approach of estimating potential output developed by Alichi and others (2018) to ...

Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Towards the end of 2000, at the peak of America’s irrational exuberance, staff economists at the Federal Reserve ...

Potential output—the maximum amount an economy can produce over the long run—is an important indicator policymakers use to gauge a country’s current economic health and expectations for future growth.

The output gap measures how far the economy is from its full employment or “potential” level that depends on supply-side factors of the economy: the supply of workers and their productivity. During a ...

Potential Output is a key factor for debt sustaintability analysis and for developing strategies for growth, but unfortunately it is an unobservable variable. Using three methodologies (production ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy is running at its full potential for the first time in a decade, a new milestone for an expansion now in its ninth year. Total economic output in the third quarter was ...

Discussions about the state of the economy tend to focus much more on the monthly wiggles in the data, the Fed’s latest program to stimulate spending, and the drama on Capitol Hill than on the ...