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Senior Scholar and Director of Research Jan Kregel was interviewed for the “Cinco Preguntas” column in Brazil's O Globo newspaper, offering his thoughts on how to address the social and economic issues that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil and around the globe. |
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Working Paper No. 989, June 2021
Michalis Nikiforos
Research Scholar Michalis Nikiforos provides an empirical discussion of the national emergency utilization rate (NEUR), based on a “national emergency” definition of potential output, examining the trajectory of potential determinants of capacity utilization to demonstrate that most have moved in a direction that would lead to an increase in utilization. He suggests that the factor that contributed most to the decrease in utilization during the period under investigation was low aggregate demand, while the increase in industry concentration might have played a small role.
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