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The Bank of Canada's New Quarterly Porjection Model Part 4 : A Semi- Structural Method to Estimate Potential Output : Combining Economic Theory with a Time-Series Filter

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Butler, L
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The level of potential output plays a central role in the Bank of Canada's new Quarterly projection Model (QPM). This report, the fourth in a series documenting QPM, descridbes a general method to measure potential output, as well as its implementation in the QPM system.

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Paper provided by Bank of Canada in its series Technical Reports with number 77.

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Length: 85 pages
Date of creation: 1996
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Keywords: INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; CENTRAL BANKS; CANADA;

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D57 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Input-Output Tables and Analysis
E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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