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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מחבר ראשי: Ball, Laurence
מחברים אחרים: Jalles, Joao Tovar, Loungani, Prakash
פורמט: כתב-עת
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
סדרה:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/024
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