Do Forecasters Believe in Okun's Law? : An Assessment of Unemployment and Output Forecasts /

This paper provides an assessment of the consistency of unemployment and output forecasts. We show that, consistent with Okun's Law, forecasts of real GDP growth and the change in unemployment are negatively correlated. The Okun coefficient-the responsiveness of unemployment to growth-from fore...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Ball, Laurence
Rannpháirtithe: Jalles, Joao Tovar, Loungani, Prakash
Formáid: IRIS
Teanga:English
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Sraith:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/024
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Rochtain ar líne:Full text available on IMF