The ECB's New Multi-Country Model for the euro area: NMCM — Simulated with rational expectations

Alistair Dieppe, Alberto Gonzalez Pandiella and Alpo Willman

Economic Modelling, 2012, vol. 29, issue 6, 2597-2614

Abstract: The model presented here is an estimated medium-scale New Multi-Country Model (NMCM) which covers the five largest euro area countries and is used for forecasting and scenario analysis at the European Central Bank. The model has a tight theoretical structure which allows for non-unitary elasticity of substitution, non-constant augmenting technical progress and heterogeneous sectors with differentiated price and income elasticities of demand across sectors. Furthermore, it has the explicit inclusion of expectations on the basis of three optimising private sector decision making units: i.e. firms, trade unions and households, where output is in the short run demand-determined and monopolistically competing firms set prices and factor demands. Labour is indivisible and monopoly-unions set wages and households make consumption/saving decisions.

Keywords: Macro model; Open-economy macroeconomics; Rational expectations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 C6 E5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.07.010

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