The authors argue that equilibrium unemployment has varied in the UK over the last twenty years, and that time series econometric methods have not always been suited to uncovering its evolution. Recent changes in the UK labour market seem to have had a significant impact on equilibrium...

We wish to analyse the new rules in the European fiscal and monetary environment, and to investigate the effects of fiscal and monetary activism in Europe. The new European Central Bank has to decide on its monetary policy stance and we aim in this paper to contribute to the debate of the best...

In this paper we formalize budgetary stabilizers as a set of simple policy rules, and assess their operation in an uncertain environment by performing stochastic simulations in a forward-looking multi-country macroeconomic model, NiGEM, comprising individual blocks for 10 Euroland economies.