This study presents an explorative econometric analysis of the influence of labour market flows on wage formation. It applies the vector cointegration and common trends methodology of Johansen (Likelihood-based Inference in Cointegrated Vector Autoregresssive Models, OUP, Oxford, 1995)....

In the economics profession there is a fierce debate whether industrial and innovation policy should be targeted to specific sectors or firms. This paper discusses the welfare effects of such targeted policies in a third-market international trade model under imperfect competition. A theoretical...

This paper illustrates the propagation at the macro level of various types of shocks in a multifirm model representing a miniature economy which consists of firms of 4 different sizes. Our modelling exercise focuses on the interaction between internal and external labour flows. These flows are...

This paper illustrates the propagation at the macro level of various types of shocks in a multifirm model representing a miniature economy which consists of firms of 4 different sizes. Our modelling exercise focuses on the interaction between internal and external labour flows. These flows are...

The short run and long run influences of the main determinants of the German long-term interest rate are estimated using quarterly data for the period 1982-2001. A major reason for the focus on the German interest rate is that this rate, and hence its determinants, will be dominant in explaining...

This article assesses the performance of a number of long-term interest rate forecast approaches, namely time series models, structural economic models, expert forecasts and combinations thereof. The predictive performance of these approaches is compared using outside sample forecast errors,...