The paper discusses the measurement of fiscal policy effects in the OECD/EU countries. The analysis is based on a simple VAR model for output growth, inflation and a fiscal indicator. Empirical analyses with data from 21 OECD countries for 1960-1996 show that fiscal policy effects differ...

This article analyses the role of inflation expectations in the euro area. On the one hand, the question is how inflation expectations affect both inflation and output, and, on the other hand, how inflation expectations reflect developments in these variables. The analysis makes use of a simple...

The relationship between suicide and business cycles is analysed using long Finnish time series for the period 1878-1994. The results clearly show that suicide increases along with age and is related to both GDP growth (inversely), bankruptcies and unemployment.

This paper provides an empirical test for the hypothesis that suicides are related to economic determinants. More precisely a hypothesis is tested that changes in the suicide rate are determined by changes in the expected growth rate of income. This hypothesis is tested with an error-correction...