We model the dynamics of Danish government bond yields in a low-rate environment using a term structure model with a lower bound, a so-called shadow rate model. Specifically, we use a shadow rate extension of the well-known Arbitrage-Free Nelson--Siegel model. In the literature, shadow rate...

Technical Considerations -- Preface -- Major immigration flows to the Nordic Region -- Asylum Seekers -- Labour Market Integration -- Representation of people with a Foreign background in State Funded Culture -- Foreign-Born persons in the Nordic Region -- References -- Health and wellbeing in...

Ignoring items with large price changes may enhance the informational content of a price index. As an application of the metrically trimmed mean (Kim, 1992) we suggest to discard the individual price changes that deviate the most from the median. Focusing on outliers increases the efficiency...

Danmarks Nationalbank introduced its annual report on financial stability in Denmark in 2000. The purpose of the analyses is to identify risks currently faced by the financial sector. As the stability in the financial sector depends on the customers' financial circumstances, and as the majority...

Danmarks Nationalbank has in November 2006 started to publish five seasonally adjusted financial time series. The series chosen for seasonal adjustment are monthly series for currency in circulation, the money stock measures M1 and M2 and the MFI sector's lending to households and to...