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...

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...

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...

We develop an alternative test of the "German view" that fiscal contractions may lead to immediate consumption booms derived from a form of an open-economy permanent income model where we add uncertainty over whether shocks are permanent or transitory. Using a time-series methodology, we...

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...

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...