The paper examines whether electronic payments by card (Dankort) provides a useful indicator for retail sales in Denmark. Dankort transactions data is available about one week after the reference month, while the retail sales index is only published about three weeks later. We add to previous...

The report focuses on the relative macroeconomic performance since the global financial crisis of six Northern European countries with a special emphasis on Finland. While fiscal and monetary policies have definitely impacted on macroeconomic outcomes in the six countries examined, as a whole...

Although Denmark shares with the other four Nordic countries certain attributes, such as pragmatic protestant religion, small and homogenous population, strong social democratic parties and ambitious welfare states, it also has its own characteristics. High degree of specialization in the...

The aim of this study was provide answers to two research questions. While the first one is concerned with the causes of the remarkable macroeconomic resilience of the Nordic EU-countries since the mid-1990s, the second one is related to the sustainability of a high degree of government activity...

Im Jahr 2000 erholte sich die Konjunktur schneller als erwartet. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt dürfte um 2 1/2 % zugenommen haben, die Arbeitslosenquote im Jahresdurchschnitt auf ungefähr 4 3/4 % gesunken sein. 2001 dürfte das reale BIP um etwa 2% expandieren. Die Beschäftigung nimmt...

Nach der konjunkturellen Verlangsamung 2001 haben sich Nachfrage und Produktion in Dänemark 2002 wieder lebhafter erhöht. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt hat um 1½% zugenommen. Auf dem Arbeitsmarkt blieb die Lage günstig. Die Arbeitslosenquote lag im Jahresdurchschnitt bei 4¼%. Die...