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Canada's Potential Productivity and Output Growth: A Post-Crisis Assessment

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  • Marcello Estevão
  • Evridiki Tsounta

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This study investigates the impact of the current financial crisis on Canada’s potential GDP growth. Using a simple accounting framework to decompose trend GDP growth into changes in capital, labour services, and total factor productivity, we find a sizeable drop in Canadian potential growth rate in the short term. The estimated decline of about 1 percentage point originates from a sharply decelerating capital stock accumulation (as investment has dropped steeply). However, over the medium term, we expect Canada’s potential GDP growth to gradually rise to around 2 per cent, below the pre-crisis growth rate, partly reflecting the effects of population aging.

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  • Marcello Estevão & Evridiki Tsounta, 2010. "Canada's Potential Productivity and Output Growth: A Post-Crisis Assessment," International Productivity Monitor, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, vol. 20, pages 3-21, Fall.
    • Handle: RePEc:sls:ipmsls:v:20:y:2010:1
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    Keywords

    productivity; potential output; growth; Canada;
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    JEL classification:

    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

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