Describes labour stability and flexibility in Japanese versus Swedish manufacturing industries. Presents a theoretical framework where a number of fields which other researchers have regarded as influencing labour stability and flexibility are analysed. Also presents some of the findings of an...

We consider forecast combination and, indirectly, model selection for VAR models when there is uncertainty about which variables to include in the model in addition to the forecast variables. The key difference from traditional Bayesian variable selection is that we also allow for uncertainty...