Country members of EMU as well as the United States have improved their fiscal positions during the course of the past decade. This article considers the impact of further government debt and deficit reductions in the EMU area. First the literature on government finance establishing the role of...

This study focuses on Dutch shareholders' structures and the participation by funds and banks in particular. Statistics show that foreigners possess the main part of Dutch shares, funds a relatively large part and banks only a small part. In the Netherlands there has been an increasing interest...

In this paper a small econometric model with model-consistent expectations is adopted for the euro zone to study monetary and inflation targeting. Similation results show that the 'costs' in terms of inflation and economic growth volatility are by and large lowest in case of inflation targeting....

This report presents an updated version of the econometric model of the Bank that is used to forecast the bank note circulation and the number of returned and rejected bank notes. New elements in the model are the estimation of long-term relationships and the inclusion of the returns at point of...

This report describes the macro-econometric model for the Republic of Macedonia MAKMODEL. It documents the main features of this model that was built by research teams of the Macedonian and Dutch central bank during July 1999 - June 2001 as one module of a large scale PHARE-project, funded by...

Recent studies criticise the construction of a Monetary Conditions Index (MCI), a composite index of interest and exchange rates frequently published by (central) banks, IMF and OECD. Instead of estimating the weights of this index by means of simple IS-curves, this paper investigates interest...

The paper presents a guide to the theoretical properties of EUROMON, the Nederlandsche Bank's multi-country model for implementing policy analysis. It is written with a view to expanding Chapter 2 of the DNB Monetary Monograph 19, which provides for a model description. EUROMON is an aggregate...

This report concentrates on the benefits of a common European currency; in particular those of the convergence to a lower inflation level, reduction of exchange rate uncertainty, lower transaction and information costs and reduced price discrimination. Calculations with the general equilibrium...

In this paper a small econometric model with model-consistent expectations is adopted for the euro zone to study monetary and inflation targeting. Similation results show that the 'costs' in terms of inflation and economic growth volatility are by and large lowest in case of inflation targeting....

For Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands and the US an Error Correction Model with a long-term non-linear wage equation is estimated by 3-SLS to obtain consistent estimates, accounting for endogeneity and common shocks. On the basis of the estimated parameter elasticities of wages with...