Today's Mexico is strongly determined to become a full player in the globalizing international economy. It has increased its manufacturing output in areas such asautomobiles and electronics, and both corporate and government sectors would like to take greater strides toward being a full global...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE NONACCELERATING INFLATION RATE OF FACTOR UTILIZATION -- III. FACTOR UTILIZATION IN RUSSIA -- A. Capacity Utilization -- B. Labor Utilization -- C. Estimating the Natural Rate -- IV. OUTPUT GAP ESTIMATES -- A. Trend Fitting and Statistical Filtering...