Estimating Capacity Utilization Using a SVAR Model: An Application to the US and Canadian Economies

Lefteris Tsoulfidis () and Theologos Dergiades

Economics Bulletin, 2007, vol. 5, issue 4, 1-12

Abstract: This paper develops a method for the estimation of the rate of capacity utilization based on standard growth theory and the Structural VAR estimating technique. The measures of capacity utilization we derive for the US and Canadian economies are compared with widely-used survey measures. We show that the degree of association and synchronization of the two measures for both economies is pretty high, a result that encourages the use of our method as a reliable alternative.

Keywords: Capacity; Utilization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C2 E3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-02-21
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