RGAP: Production Function Output Gap Estimation

The output gap indicates the percentage difference between the actual output of an economy and its potential. Since potential output is a latent process, the estimation of the output gap poses a challenge and numerous filtering techniques have been proposed. 'RGAP' facilitates the estimation of a Cobb-Douglas production function type output gap, as suggested by the European Commission (Havik et al. 2014) <https://ideas.repec.org/p/euf/ecopap/0535.html>. To that end, the non-accelerating wage rate of unemployment (NAWRU) and the trend of total factor productivity (TFP) can be estimated in two bivariate unobserved component models by means of Kalman filtering and smoothing. 'RGAP' features a flexible modeling framework for the appropriate state-space models and offers frequentist as well as Bayesian estimation techniques. Additional functionalities include direct access to the 'AMECO' <https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-research-and-databases/economic-databases/ameco-database_en> database and automated model selection procedures. See the paper by Streicher (2022) <http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/552089> for details.

Version: 0.1.1
Depends: R (≥ 3.1.0)
Imports: stats, KFAS, zoo, dlm, openxlsx, ggplot2, gridExtra
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), R.rsp
Published: 2023-11-02
Author: Sina Streicher ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Sina Streicher <streicher at kof.ethz.ch>
License: GPL-3
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: RGAP citation info
Materials: README
CRAN checks: RGAP results

Documentation:

Reference manual: RGAP.pdf
Vignettes: Production Function Output Gap Estimation

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Package source: RGAP_0.1.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: RGAP_0.1.1.zip, r-release: RGAP_0.1.1.zip, r-oldrel: RGAP_0.1.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): RGAP_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): RGAP_0.1.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): RGAP_0.1.1.tgz
Old sources: RGAP archive

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