UK Recession and Business Capacity - Teacher Presentation
Sunday, November 01, 2009
This streamed presentation provides a snapshot of the latest economic data on UK business capacity. The slump in output in the British economy has left many businesses and industries with a huge amount of spare capacity and the negative output gap is expected to grow beyond 6% of GDP in 2010 according to the OECD. A high level of spare capacity (or productive slack) has important consequences for jobs, inflationary pressures, planned investment and business profits.
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Warnings of hysteresis for the EU economy
Thursday, July 02, 2009
The recession and financial crisis may lead to a permanent loss in potential economic output and a slower trend rate of growth in the future according to a new study by the European Commission. The fall in potential GDP will be an example of hysteresis effects across the European economy and the cyclical downturn in output and jobs creates long term damage.
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