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Assessment of the natural rate of unemployment and capacity utilisation in Latvia

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  • Aleksejs Meļihovs

    () (Monetary Policy Department, Bank of Latvia)

  • Anna Zasova

    () (Monetary Policy Department, Bank of Latvia)

Abstract

Inflation and its dynamics feature among the most important indicators in the focus of such economic agents as producers, consumers, investors, monetary and fiscal policy makers. Risks of high inflation or deflation enhance the need to profoundly investigate factors and causes of unfavourable inflation dynamics. Optimal capacity utilisation is one of the ways to escape endogenous pressures that increase inflation or cause deflation. This study pursues the aim of assessing short-term relationships between the capacity utilisation rate and inflation in Latvia. The authors have set a target to determine the capacity utilisation rate at which no pressure is exerted upon inflation and to show whether the capacity utilisation rate of the Latvian economy was an underlying factor that caused a rise in inflation after EU accession.

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Article provided by Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies in its journal Baltic Journal of Economics.

Volume (Year): 9 (2009)
Issue (Month): 2 (December)
Pages: 25-46

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Handle: RePEc:bic:journl:v:9:y:2009:i:2:p:25-46

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Cited by:
  1. Agnese Bicevska & Aleksejs Melihovs & Krista Kalnberzina, 2009. "Savings in Latvia," Discussion Papers 2009/01, Latvijas Banka.
  2. Farzana Shaheen & Azad Haider & Sajid Amin Javed, 2011. "Estimating Pakistan’s Time Varying Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment: An Unobserved Component Approach," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 1(4), pages 172-179.

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