For economists trying to measure the health of an economy, there are a number of similar sounding but slightly different concepts that can confuse those without a background in macroeconomics. Two of ...

Wet aggregates increase asphalt plant fuel costs and create extra time and labor in order to stay on track with deadlines It’s a Monday morning, you’re headed to your construction aggregate plant ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper finds a negative relationship between the employment share of the service sector and the volatility of aggregate ...

Since late 2015, growth in real GDP has consistently exceeded that in real GDI, a prominent alternative measure of aggregate output, with an average difference of about 0.65 percentage point. Is real ...

This paper estimates the potential output (and the output gap) in Chile using several different methodologies. After a structural brake in 1998, the average growth rate of potential output in Chile ...

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Recent studies (e.g., Acemoglu et al. (2012)) argue that microeconomic shocks propagate through input-output linkages and result in aggregate fluctuations. This paper challenges this view by ...