Estonia's potential growth revisited

Rasmus Kattai ()
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Rasmus Kattai: Research Department, Esti Pank

Baltic Journal of Economics, 2010, vol. 10, issue 2, 63-78

Abstract: There have been several data revisions to output statistics in Estonia during the past six years as methodologies have been harmonised. These changes are significant enough to require corrections to the earlier understanding of Estonia’s potential economic growth rate. In this paper the latest data vintage from 2009 is used to estimate Estonia’s potential output growth and output gap. The production function approach that has been used shows that the gap varies quite extensively, ranging from –8% in 1999 to +8% in 2007, while the average potential growth rate in 1997–2009 was around 6%. The macro model simulations expect the potential growth rate to fall in the future. The fall in the marginal productivity of production inputs makes growth slow to about 4–5% in the next five years, if there are no additional shocks to the economy.

Keywords: potential output; potential growth; output gap; production function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 F43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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