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Estimating Sri Lanka’s Potential Output

By Ding Ding, John Nelmes, Roshan Perera, Volodymyr Tulin

March 11, 2014

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Ding Ding, John Nelmes, Roshan Perera, and Volodymyr Tulin. Estimating Sri Lanka’s Potential Output, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

In this paper we present various techniques to estimate Sri Lanka’s potential output and output gap, including statistical and model-based approaches. Compared to conventional statistical filters that rely exclusively on information in a single series, the model-based approaches allow potential output estimates to incorporate information contained in observable data series including inflation, actual output, unemployment and capacity utilization. The estimation results suggest that Sri Lanka’s potential output has risen slightly in the last few years.

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

Keywords: Capacity Utilization, Equilibrium unemployment unemployment rate, Excess demand, Global, Inflation, Inflation equation, Inflation Expectations, Inflation objective, Inflation-output trade-off, Multivariate Filter, Output Gap, Output gap estimate, Potential Output, Unemployment, Unemployment rate, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    16

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2014/040

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2014040

  • ISBN:

    9781484333938

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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