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Okuns Law Revisited: Evidence From OECD Countries

International Business & Economics Research Journal

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Title Okuns Law Revisited: Evidence From OECD Countries
 
Creator Moazzami, B.
Dadgostar, B.
 
Subject Economics; Finance
 
Description Okuns law is one of the most enduring stylistic facts in macroeconomics. The inverse relationship between the unemployment rate and the growth rate of real output, known as Okuns law, has important implications for macroeconomic policy, particularly in determining the optimal and desirable growth rate of output. This paper examines this relationship within an error correction modelling framework which tests the relationship as a long-run relationship while allowing short-run deviations from long-run equilibrium to take place. Using quarterly data for 13 OECD countries covering the period from 1988.I to 2007:IV, we find overwhelming support for Okuns law.
 
Publisher The Clute Institute
 
Date 2011-02-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.cluteinstitute.com/ojs/index.php/IBER/article/view/3156
10.19030/iber.v8i8.3156
 
Source International Business & Economics Research Journal (IBER); Vol 8 No 8 (2009)
2157-9393
1535-0754
10.19030/iber.v8i8
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.cluteinstitute.com/ojs/index.php/IBER/article/view/3156/3204