Produto Potencial: Conceitos, Métodos de Estimação e Aplicação à Economia Brasileira
The potential output is an unobservable variable and therefore it is hard to measure.The aim of this paper is to contribute to the discussion of the potential outputestimation by making a theoretical and methodological survey and estimating thevariable for the Brazilian economy. After a quick analysis about the main conceptsrelated to this issue and the estimation methods most used in the internationalliterature, it was chosen to use two kinds of combinations among the productionfunction method and the HP filter. The main conclusions of this paper were: firstly,the potential output is highly responsive to the method used; secondly, based onquarterly Brazilian data, it was possible to observe that the economic growth recoveryinitiated at the end of 2003 was not followed by an increase of the potential outputin the same proportion.
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2005-11
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Authors: | Júnior, José Ronaldo de Castro Souza |
Institutions: | Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Government of Brazil |
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