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 ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Uncertainty around the real-time output gap has important implications for fiscal policy. This study uses successive ...

This comprehensive analysis demonstrates that strategic investments in water infrastructure are vital for economic expansion, ...

The field of economic models and forecasting encompasses the development and application of theoretical, empirical and computational frameworks to predict future economic outcomes. These models range ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's output gap in the April-June quarter was upgraded to 0.3%, its largest since July-September 2019, after reflecting a revised gross domestic product (GDP) data, the Cabinet ...

German industrial production rose for the fifth straight month in February, likely the last increase in a streak economists ...

We study the revision properties of the Bank of Canada's staff output gap estimates since the mid-1980s and show that the average revision has been significantly smaller since the early 2000s.

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 ...