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For economists trying to measure the health of an economy, there are a number of similar sounding but slightly different concepts that can confuse those without a background in macroeconomics. Two of ...

AGGREGATE expenditure is the total amount spent of the economy’s output by all households, firms, foreigners as well as the government. The components of aggregate expenditure consist of household ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper finds a negative relationship between the employment share of the service sector and the volatility of aggregate ...

Since late 2015, growth in real GDP has consistently exceeded that in real GDI, a prominent alternative measure of aggregate output, with an average difference of about 0.65 percentage point. Is real ...

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Recent studies (e.g., Acemoglu et al. (2012)) argue that microeconomic shocks propagate through input-output linkages and result in aggregate fluctuations. This paper challenges this view by ...

Aggregate supply is the total value of goods or services in a market, sector or economy. Aggregate supply is used to show the amount of goods that can be produced at different price levels in a given ...