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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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 1999
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
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653 |a Inflation 
653 |a Wealth 
653 |a Stocks 
653 |a Labour 
653 |a Dollarization 
653 |a Short-term Capital Movements 
653 |a Monetary economics 
653 |a Saving 
653 |a Financial institutions 
653 |a Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General 
653 |a Deflation 
653 |a Current Account Adjustment 
653 |a Balance of payments 
653 |a Exports and Imports 
653 |a International economics 
653 |a National accounts 
653 |a Labor 
653 |a Macroeconomics: Production 
653 |a Price Level 
653 |a Saving and investment 
653 |a Budget 
653 |a Prices 
653 |a Macroeconomics 
653 |a Public financial management (PFM) 
653 |a Monetary policy 
653 |a Macroeconomics: Consumption 
653 |a Investment & securities 
653 |a Extra-budgetary funds 
653 |a Money and Monetary Policy 
653 |a Income economics 
653 |a Current account deficits 
653 |a Production and Operations Management 
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520 |a 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