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The Reserve Bank's method of estimating "potential output"

Ashley Lienert, David Gillmore

Estimates of the "output gap" play a significant role in the thinking of inflation-targeting central banks. This note outlines how the Reserve Bank estimates the level of potential output and the output gap.