This paper deals with the analysis of the inflation rate in South Africa for the time period 1970M1-2008M12. We use long range dependence techniques and the results show that inflation in this country is a covariance stationary process with long range dependence, with an order of integration...

This paper seeks to shed light on possible changes in the government debt dynamics for the first 12 euro area countries. Structural breaks are present around the global financial crisis for most countries, but not for Germany and France, the two core countries in the euro area. The properties of...

This paper presents a cyclical model for unemployment and entrepreneurship. The estimated periodicity of the cycles for the US, the UK, Spain and Ireland is between 5 and 10 years, and the orders of integration are smaller (greater) than 1 if the underlying disturbances are autocorrelated...