Stock-flow consistent data for the Dutch economy, 1995-2015
Joan Muysken, Bas Bonekamp & Huub Meijers
#2017-045
In earlier work Meijers, Muysken (and Sleijpen) have developed an open
economy stock-flow consistent (SFC) macroeconomic model of the Dutch
economy with an elaborated financial sector. This model has been used to
analyse several stylised facts of the Dutch economy, such as the deposit
financing gap, the excessive trade surplus, the impact of firms
accumulating financial assets and the impact of quantitative easing.
However, the stylised facts were collected in an ad hoc way and the
parameters used in the model were taken from the international
literature, without proper reference to Dutch data.
In the present paper we develop a stock flow consistent data set for the
Dutch economy 1995 - 2015 in order to stimulate further research in the
SFC tradition using actual data, and to enhance our understanding of the
Dutch economy. The data set is based on data from the Central Bureau of
Statistics (CBS) for most sectors - these are consistent with the AMECO
data published by Eurostat. However, for the financial sector we show
that the CBS-data are incomplete and also use data provided by the Dutch
Central Bank (DNB). We distinguish between households, firms,
government, a foreign sector and within the financial sector between a
central bank, banks and pension funds. For each sector we provide a
somewhat simplified balance sheet and consistent flows, which can be
used in the model.
JEL Classification: E01, E44, C54, F45, G21, G32
Keywords: stock-flow consistent modelling, Dutch economy, current
account surplus