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Capacity Utilization Rate
The capacity utilization rate is the value of production capacity which is actually being utilized over a specific period of time.

 


Capacity Utilization Rate
Capacity Utilization Rate definition :
The percentage of the economy's total plant and equipment that is currently in production.

CAPACITY UTILIZATION RATE - The percentage of the economy's total plant and equipment that is currently...
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Capacity Utilization Rate: The percentage of total available industrial capacity in the economy (plants and equipment) being used to produce goods.

Capacity utilization
The proportion of capacity that is able to be utilized to fulfil customer demand for products
or services.
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CAPACITY UTILIZATION RATE: The ratio of actual production by business sector factories and other productive establishments in the economy to the potential production of these establishments.

Capacity Utilization Rate
A metric used to measure the rate at which potential output levels are being met or used.

CAPACITY UTILIZATION
A root of the problem is that traditional job costing allocates overhead based on the expected output.

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Capacity utilization factor
Internal consumption rate, %
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Capacity utilization is very volatile and responds rapidly to changing economic conditions. It falls in recessions and increases during economic expansions as the red line in the chart below illustrates.

Third, the highest rates of capacity utilization and employment that are consistent with a stable trend of prices.
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Fourth, high trend growth of productivity and real GDP per worker.

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Production as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employment, investment spending, capacity utilization, household incomes, business profits and inflation all fall during recessions; while bankruptcies and the unemployment rate rise.

Source: Greenwood, J., Z. Hercowitz, and G. Huffman, (1988), "Investment, Capacity Utilization, and the Real Business Cycles", AER, 78 402-417.
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See also: Capacity utilization rate, Expense, Saving, Job, Banks

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