The Far East stands apart among Russia's other areas, mostly owing to its vast natural resource potential and advantageous geographical position, which have determined the highly individual economic structure of the area. The high cost-efficiency of natural resource development encouraged the...

This paper estimates the potential output (and the output gap) in Chile using several different methodologies. After a structural brake in 1998, the average growth rate of potential output in Chile declined from over 7 percent to 3-4 percent in the aggregate economy, but to less than 2 percent...

This paper estimates the potential output (and the output gap) in Chile using several different methodologies. After a structural brake in 1998, the average growth rate of potential output in Chile declined from over 7 percent to 3-4 percent in the aggregate economy, but to less than 2 percent...