Authors of the Report on the European Economy 2009

This chapter presents the macroeconomic forecast and analyses monetary and fiscal policy in Europe. Because of the uncertainty about macroeconomic developments in the US and how they will be transmitted to the rest of the world as well as the uncertainty about how decoupled growth in emerging...

This chapter looks in detail at the macroeconomic performance of Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Finland and Sweden have achieved high output growth but less satisfactory employment growth. Denmark has been less successful in terms of output growth, but labour market performance has been...

Authors of the Report on the European Economy 2007

This chapter addresses one of the most long-term issues for mankind: global warming. The chapter points out that most existing analyses have neglected the supply side. Without a proper analysis of supply-side effects, demand-reducing measures, which are generally regarded as selfevident...

This chapter analyses the impact of increased economic integration with low-wage economies on Western European jobs: the message is that when taking all effects into account, globalisation is more likely in the end to raise rather than to reduce employment, because it will help making labour...