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United States Selected Issues

This Selected Issues paper on the United States analyzes the measures of potential output, natural rate of unemployment, and capacity utilization. Traditionally, measures of resource utilization have been used as indicators for the potential build-up of inflation pressures, and hence as guides for t...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 1999
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
Subjects:
Inflation
Wealth
Stocks
Dollarization
Labour; Income Economics
Short-term Capital Movements
Monetary Economics
Financial Institutions
Saving
Wages, Compensation, And Labor Costs: General
Deflation
Current Account Adjustment
Balance Of Payments
Exports And Imports
International Economics
National Accounts
Labor
Macroeconomics: Production
Price Level
Saving And Investment
Budget
Prices
Macroeconomics
Monetary Policy
Public Financial Management (pfm)
Macroeconomics: Consumption
Extra-budgetary Funds
Investment & Securities
Money And Monetary Policy
Current Account Deficits
Production And Operations Management
Private Savings
United States
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Summary:This Selected Issues paper on the United States analyzes the measures of potential output, natural rate of unemployment, and capacity utilization. Traditionally, measures of resource utilization have been used as indicators for the potential build-up of inflation pressures, and hence as guides for the formulation of macroeconomic policy. The paper highlights that the most commonly used indicators of resource utilization in the United States are the output gap, the employment gap, and capacity utilization in industry. The paper also analyzes the wage and price determination and productivity trends in the United States
Physical Description:107 pages
ISBN:9781451839579

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