Research activities

• Research interests
  - Fiscal policy, in particular the effects on labour market performance
  - Measuring persistence in time series
  - Dynamic panel data models
  - State space unobserved component models
• Recent papers
  

  -	Common Correlated Effects Estimation of Dynamic Panels with Cross-Sectional Dependence (with T. De Groote)	In progress
  -	The determinants of migration into the EU around the turn of the century: a panel data analysis (with I. Ruyssen and G. Rayp)	In progress
  -	The Stickiness of Aggregate Consumption Growth in OECD Countries: A Panel Data Analysis (with L. Pozzi)		Updated on 06/05/2010
  -	Orthogonal to Backward Mean Transformation for Dynamic Panel Data Models		Updated on 05/05/2010
  -	Is the Impact of Labour Taxes on Unemployment Asymmetric? (with T. Berger)
  -	Estimation and Inference in Time Series with Omitted I(1) Variables
  -	Disentangling the Sources of Inflation Persistence (with M. Dossche)

• Publications

Teaching and other activities
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