The Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) is an appealing theoretical concept with strong macroeconomic policy implications. In practice, NAIRU's can be computed from estimated wage and price equations running in growth rates or in levels. In this paper we specify and estimate...

One of the traditional motivations for building quarterly macroeconometric models is the demand for quarterly forecasts. Models based on annual data conceal higher frequency information and are not considered sufficiently informative to policy makers. Two difficulties may encumber quarterly...

This paper reviews empirical evidence for the United States on the impact of the public capital stock on productivity. On econometric grounds it is argued that most previous research is flawed. If the well-known model of Aschauer is estimated in first differences - which is necessary as the...

This paper reviews empirical research on the impact of government capital spending on economic growth. The pros and cons of five different ways to model the relationship between public investment and economic growth are reviewed, while some estimation results are presented for illustrative...

In this paper we analyse the impact of profits on investment using data of the Dutch manufacturing sector in a simple Kaleckian investment model. Profits and capacity determine the level of investment. The empirical analysis with this "non-mainstream" model confirms conclusions drawn in the...

The paper estimates a household money demand function for Poland from 1969 to 1995. Contrary to theoretical belief and earlier empirical evidence portfolio arguments are found to be significant. Despite regime shifts during the 1980s and full liberalization of the Polish economy in the beginning...

Is het mogelijk om de overheidsschuld te verminderen, zoals benodigd voor deelname aan de EMU, en tegelijkertijd de verhouding tussen het aantal inactieven en actieven (de i/a-ratio) te verlagen? Het kabinet tracht dit te doen door tekortreductie en het stimuleren van marktwerking en dynamiek....

Macroeconomics is the foremost important theoretical basis for medium- and long-run real and financial investment analysis. In the long run economic growth rules, while in the medium run business cycles determine investment opportunities. In this leaflet we show how a data provider like...

This paper uses a flexible functional form approach to account for the direct and indirect effects of public capital on the private sector. Furthermore we explicitly incorporate energy in the production function. We use the duality between production and cost functions and base our investigation...

This paper adopts the vector autoregression (VAR) approach to modelling the economy of the Netherlands. A VAR system with four endogenous variables---gross domestic product, inflation, the capital market interest rate and the money market interest rate---is built. The small, open character of...