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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Yazar: Ball, Laurence
Diğer Yazarlar: Jalles, Joao Tovar, Loungani, Prakash
Materyal Türü: Dergi
Dil:English
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Seri Bilgileri:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/024
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