The GDP framework and the output gap are an abstraction that does little more than provide justification for the interventions of government officials. According to popular thinking, the key cause ...
BRASILIA, Sept 5 (Reuters) - A Brazilian central bank official said on Tuesday that the country's second-quarter economic growth, which exceeded policymakers' expectations, will influence the bank's ...
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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 ...
Keynesians, this one’s for you. At the heart of the stimulus versus austerity debate lies the vexing question: to what extent have advanced countries’ structural growth prospects been downgraded by ...
During economic downturns an economy’s output of goods and services declines. When times are good, by contrast, that output—usually measured as GDP—increases (see “Gross Domestic Product: An Economy’s ...
During economic downturns an economy’s output of goods and services declines. When times are good, by contrast, that output—usually measured as GDP—increases (see “Gross Domestic Product: An Economy’s ...