Assessing the losses in euro area potential productivity due to the financial crisis

Valérie Chouard, Daniel Fuentes Castro, Delphine Irac and Matthieu Lemoine

Applied Economics, 2014, vol. 46, issue 23, 2711-2720

Abstract: In this article, we show that the recent financial crisis has significantly affected the potential total factor productivity (TFP) of the four largest euro area economies, as well as that of the rest of the euro area. We used a reduced-form equation of TFP, based on an approach recently developed by Cahn and Saint-Guilhem (2010). Our empirical findings show that the permanent impact on potential TFP varies across countries from -3.9 points to -1.3 points in Q2 2012. When these losses are incorporated, TFP gaps develop closely in line with capacity utilization rates (CUR). Moreover, in the case of France, including CUR in our TFP model improves the quasi-real-time reliability of TFP gap estimates.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2014.887193

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