Acevedo Rueda, Rafael Alexis and Mora Mora, José U. and Harmath Fernández, Pedro Alexander (2012): La brecha del producto y el producto potencial en Venezuela: una estimación SVAR. Published in: Desarrollo y Sociedad No. primer semestre (June 2013): pp. 43-81.
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Abstract
This paper estimates the GDP gap in Venezuela by means of the structural VAR methodology and the Blanchard and Quah decomposition for the period 1999:1-2010:4. We use quarterly data for the inflation rate, real GDP, unemployment rate, and oil prices. We identify fiscal and monetary innovations on the demand side and technological and labor market disturbances on the supply side. Empirical results are consistent with the ones found the literature and reveal that even though there is a wide gap between real and potential GDP at the beginning of the period, it tends to narrow towards the end of the period as a result of the rise in oil prices. The GDP gap out of sample forecast shows that this gap, eventually, could fall as a result of the contraction in economic activity during 2009 and 2010.
Item Type: | MPRA Paper |
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Original Title: | La brecha del producto y el producto potencial en Venezuela: una estimación SVAR |
English Title: | Output Gap and Potential GDP in Venezuela: A SVAR Estimation |
Language: | Spanish |
Keywords: | Business cycles, potential output, inflation, oil prices, SVAR models |
Subjects: | C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C0 - General > C01 - Econometrics E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E22 - Investment ; Capital ; Intangible Capital ; Capacity O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity > O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence P - Economic Systems > P4 - Other Economic Systems > P44 - National Income, Product, and Expenditure ; Money ; Inflation |
Item ID: | 58691 |
Depositing User: | Rafael Alexis Acevedo Rueda |
Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2014 02:03 |
Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2019 13:07 |
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URI: | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/58691 |