Rafael Domenech (Economic Bureau of the Prime Minister, Spain. University of Valencia, Spain) Ángel Estrada (Economic Bureau of the Prime Minister, Spain) Luis González-Calbet (Economic Bureau of the Prime Minister, Spain)
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An accurately estimation of the cyclical position of an economy is a necessary condition for the success of fiscal stabilisation policies. In this paper we show that the estimation of the output gap by means of decomposing a production function produces similar results to univariate and multivariate methods, increasing their robustness and allowing us to conclude that most of the information on the economic cycle is included in the cyclical component of the unemployment rate. The results also indicate that there is reduced uncertainty about the periods when the Spanish economy has clearly been in a deep recession or in a sharp expansion. These periods have been limited and of relatively short duration. Fiscal policy should pay particular attention to these episodes, when discretionary stabilisation policies make most sense.
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Paper provided by International Economics Institute, University of Valencia in its series Working Papers with number
0705.
Length: 28 pages Date of creation: Nov 2007 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:iei:wpaper:0705
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