System estimates of potential output and the NAIRU

Empirical Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 373-388

  Apel, Mikael ^a   Jansson, Per ^a  

^a Economics Department   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Kalman filter; NAIRU; Okun's law; Phillips curve; Potential output; Structural time series models; Unobserved components models

Indexed keywords

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; METHODOLOGY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0032710470     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001810050061     Document Type: Article

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