IMF Staff Country Reports

Sweden: Selected Issues

October 12, 1999

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Sweden: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1999) accessed December 22, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper describes a variety of methodologies for estimating a country’s potential output level and presents empirical estimates for Sweden. The paper explains why these methods produce a variety of results, some of which are more plausible than others. The paper looks more closely at one aspect of growth in potential output: how it has been affected by the structural policy improvements of the past several years. The paper examines the pattern of output and unemployment over time to separate permanent changes from cyclical and other temporary changes.

Subject: Expenditure, Labor, Output gap, Pension spending, Pensions, Potential output, Production, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Baltics, Constructed output gap, CR, East Asia, Europe, Expenditure GDP ratio, Growth impetus, Headline CPI inflation, HP filter, ISCR, Output gap, Pension, Pension spending, Pension-rights income, Pensions, Potential output, Riksbank inflation forecast, Total factor productivity, Western Europe

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    79

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1999/115

  • Stock No:

    1SWEEA0021999

  • ISBN:

    9781451835922

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685