Este trabajo pretende señalar los principales rasgos que la rama de servicios presenta en la economía española. Para ello, se compara el comportamiento de una serie de variables económicas -valor añadido, empleo, productividad, deflactores y costes laborales unitarios-, desde tres...

Este trabajo pretende caracterizar el grado de concentración de las ramas productivas de la economía española en el período 1996-1999, tanto de la industria como de los servicios. Para ello, se presentan una batería de índices de concentración calculados con relación al empleo...

This paper uses a well-established growth accounting framework to measure the contribution of ICT goods (considered as capital inputs) to output and labour productivity growth in the Spanish economy. We apply this framework to a sample of around 1300 Spanish firms per year over the period...

The potential negative consequences of high financial volatility have been an important concern recently. Although its empirical relevance has not been proved conclusively, clear theoretic and intuitive arguments justify this concern. Many efforts have been conducted, therefore, to determine...

This paper applies a well-established growth accounting framework to measure the contribution of ICT inputs to output and labour productivity growth in Spain, using a sample of 1300 firms per year over 1991-2000. Firm-level data are helpful to overcome the availability lags and the...

This paper explores Spanish Treasury bond auctions both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. In the theoretical analysis we present a model to explore the revenue efficiency of Spanish Treasury bond auctions. Given the complexity of the Spanish auction game, the model abstracts from...

We evaluate the degree of gradualism and inaction in UK monetary policy over the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) period (1997-2007) at the quarterly and the monthly frequency. After accounting for misspecification in standard Taylor rules, we find little evidence for gradualism. A measure of...

We construct a measure of the short-term world interest rate using principal component analysis. Drawing on real interest rate data for 18 OECD countries for the period 1985 - 2008, persistent deviations from the world interest rate that cannot be explained by movements in the real exchange rate...

This paper introduces the Bank of England's new forecasting platform and provides examples of how it can be applied to practical forecasting problems. The platform consists of four components: COMPASS, a structural central organising model; a suite of models, used to fill in the gaps in the...

Over the past 20 years, the constant-price and current-price ratios of business investment to total output have behaved very differently. In this article we use a simple framework to examine how these two ratios should behave in long-run equilibrium. We investigate the conditions in which each...