Will the current employment crisis produce lost generations with permanently lower labour market attachment? Taking an explicit cohort perspective and based on Danish data we do not find strong persistence in employment rates at the cohort level. Younger workers tend to be more exposed to...

Rules and discretion in public sector decision making are compared in a macroeconomic setting where there is a potential role for an active stabilization policy when the policymaker has private information about nominal shocks. The credibility of announcements about the state of nature is shown...

The role of asymmetric information and the incentive to acquire information is considered for a monopolistically competitive economy. To focus on nominal rigidities, the money stock is the only state variable, and it is shown how informational problems can cause nominal price rigidities. Under...

The coordination of production and consumption decisions is analysed in a static model where the interdependence between production, income and demand is explicitly modelled. With imperfect competition and non-convex production technologies it is shown that there exists a zero pure profit...

International product market integration enhances both export possibilities through easier access to foreign markets, but also the import threat arising from foreign firms penetrating into the domestic market. These mechanisms affect wage formation and employment creation through many channels...

The aim of this paper is to clarify the policy strategies pursued in the Nordic countries in the 1970s and 1980s to attain internal and external balance. A distinction is made between (1) a bridging strategy, (2) a sheltering or adaptive strategy, and (3) a production strategy of export-led...

The interaction between a common monetary policy targeting inflation and decentralized fiscal policies aiming at output stability is considered in a setting taking into account interdependencies between countries running via trade links and the common monetary policy. The setting is sufficiently...