Search Results - subject:"Capacity utilization"

Demand and distribution in a dynamic spatial panel model for the United States: evidence from state-level data

Lima, Gilberto Tadeu; Marques, André de Mattos - 2022

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Household debt, knowledge capital accumulation and macrodynamic performance

Carvalho, Laura; Lima, Gilberto Tadeu; Serra, Gustavo … - 2022

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Business Cycle Accounting Analysis of Monetary Policy Transmission in India

Mishra, Kshitiz - 2022

We study the monetary policy transmission or lack of it in Indian context using a Monetary Business Cycle Accounting (MBCA) framework. The standard MBCA setup consists of a real business cycle model with a central bank following Taylor’s rule augmented with wedges which capture the deviation...

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Information, Decisions, and Productivity : On-Board Computers and Capacity Utilization in Trucking

Hubbard, Thomas N. - 2022

(OBC) adoption has affected capacity utilization in the trucking industry. Estimates using 1997 data indicate that capacity … capacity utilization in the industry, which translates to billions of dollars of annual benefits. The commercialization of … utilization has increased by an average of 13% among trucks for which advanced OBCs have been adopted. The average benefits to …

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Business Cycle Accounting

Chari, Varadarajan V.; Kehoe, Patrick J.; McGrattan, … - 2022

We propose a simple method to help researchers develop quantitative models of economic fluctuations. The method rests on the insight that many models are equivalent to a prototype growth model with time-varying wedges which resemble productivity, labor and investment taxes, and government...

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Investment, Capacity, and Uncertainty : A Putty-Clay Approach

Gilchrist, Simon; Williams, John C. - 2022

We embed the microeconomic decisions associated with investment under uncertainty, capacity utilization, and machine …

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Are Technology Improvements Contractionary?

Basu, Susanto; Fernald, John G.; Kimball, Miles S. - 2022

Yes. We construct a measure of aggregate technology change, controlling for varying utilization of capital and labor, non-constant returns and imperfect competition, and aggregation effects. On impact, when technology improves, input use and non-residential investment fall sharply. Output...

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Robust real-time estimates of the German output gap based on a multivariate trend-cycle decomposition

Berger, Tino; Ochsner, Christian - 2022

The German economy is an important economic driver in the Euro-area in terms of gross domestic product, labour force and international integration. We provide a state of the art estimate of the German output gap between 1995 and 2022 and present a nowcasting scheme that accurately predicts the...

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Capacity utilization, factor substitution, and productivity growth in Canadian food processing sector

Gamtessa, Samuel - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 10 (2022), pp. 1-16

industry and potential coping techniques. This study estimates capacity utilization, which is a measurement that is well …-suited to identify how input prices affect productivity in the short-run. The results show that capacity utilization decreased … factor substitution. Another conclusion is that capacity utilization has a positive elasticity with respect to the cost of …

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Measuring TFP : The Role of Profits, Adjustment Costs, and Capacity Utilization

Comin, Diego; Quintana, Javier; Schmitz, Tom; Trigari, … - 2022

We develop a new method for estimating industry-level and aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Our method accounts for profits and adjustment costs, and uses firm surveys to proxy for changes in factor utilization. Using it to compute TFP growth rates in the United States and in...

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