This research memorandum presents a chronology of (press) information about important measures, events, adresses, quotations an comments by politicians, banking economists and other financial experts closely involved in the European integration process. Central points in the report are the weak...

This research memorandum presents and discusses the results of the 10th DNB euro survey which was held in September/October 2000 by NIPO commissioned by the Nederlandsche Bank. Confidence in the European currency has declined the main reason being the weakening of the euro vis-à-vis the dollar....

This research memorandum presents and discusses the results of the 12th DNB-euro survey which was held in July 2001 among the Dutch public and business sector. The business community has energetically embarked upon preparing for the euro. Large scale and medium-sized enterprises have...

This research memorandum presents and discusses the results of the 11th euro survey which was held in February/March 2001 among the Ducht public and business sector. The negative trend in eurosentiment and satisfaction about the provision of information has stopped. Euro knowledge has improved...

The educational attainment of the Dutch labour force is lower than in neighbouring countries. Despite this worrying picture, and the fact that financial resources devoted to education are relatively small, it is argued that increasing public expenditure is not the obvious answer. As the social...

This report investigates monetary transmission in a monetary union of developing countries (West-African monetary union or Communauté Financière Africaine, CFA). This requires existing monetary transmission models to be adapted. Three econometric methods are applied to assess the impact of...

The headline inflation rate is subject to unpredictable, temporary, sector-specific shocks. Therefore, various measures of core inflation have been proposed to isolate the underlying or permanent inflation component. In this paper, a number of criteria are used to evaluate several statistical...