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- Title
PIB potencial y productividad total de los factores: Recesiones y expansiones en México.
- Authors
Acevedo Fernández, Ernesto
- Abstract
Potential GDP and the NAIRU of Mexico are estimated using a Cobb-Douglas production function combined with a Kalman filter, under the assumption of three different behaviors of total factor productivity. A growth accounting exercise is carried out to identify the factor contribution of labor and capital. Results show that during 2006-2007 potential growth of Mexico was between 3.7 and 4.3 per cent. The economic cycles experienced in Mexico are characterized, and its recessions and expansions are dated. During 1980-2007 economic recessions and expansions lasted on average 7.0 and 13.3 quarters, respectively; that means recessions in Mexico are 121.1 per cent longer than in the US, while expansions are 46.8 per cent shorter. As a consequence of economic recessions, Mexico lost 16.1 per cent of its GDP and more than 1.2 million workers were fired.
- Publication
Economia Mexicana, 2009, Vol 18, Issue 2, p175
- ISSN
0185-0458
- Publication type
Article