This report describes the determination of private consumption and investment in the BOF4 model. The consumption function of the model is largely based on thepermanent income hypothesis. Relative prices and the level of aggregate consumption determine the shares of the three consumption...

This paper describes the structure and simulation properties of the Bank of Finland's macroeconometric model BOF4. BOF4 is a quarterly, medium-sized macro model of the Finnish economy, consisting of about 70 behavioural equations. Including accounting identities and technical linkages of...