Estimating Potential Output and the Output Gap in Slovakia

December 1, 2008

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Tetsuya Konuki. Estimating Potential Output and the Output Gap in Slovakia, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

This paper estimates potential output and the output gap for Slovakia which enjoyed rapid growth with few signs of economic overheating in recent years. It applies two broad sets of approaches: conventional methods, represented by a statistical method and a production function approach; and a multivariate (MV) Kalman filter method. The MV Kalman filter method produces estimates of excess demand that portray much more sensibly the situation in recent years in Slovakia than the conventional methods, because it can use more information to condition the paths of potential output.

Subject: Gross fixed investment, Labor markets, Output gap, Potential output, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Output gap estimate, Production function approach, WP

Publication Details

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22
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Working Paper No. 2008/275
Stock No:

WPIEA2008275
ISBN:

9781451871333
ISSN:

1018-5941

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