Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of aggregate suicides in 15 OECD countries during 1960-2010 using an economic model where changes in the welfare of consumers play the critical role for determining the number of suicides. Design/methodology/approach The...

Several studies have analyzed the long-run determinants of current account balances using panel cointegration techniques. In this paper we will study both the long-run determinants and the short-run dynamics of the trade balances in the EU-15 countries. We will analyze each country separately...

We augment the famous Fisher hypothesis for a small open economy by introducing foreign interest rate and exchange variables to the traditional test equation of the hypothesis. Using the Johansen cointegration method for the Finnish money market interest rate data we find it is possible to find...