The DREAM model

The purpose of the DREAM model is to analyse the long-term challenges of the Danish welfare state. One question that it aims to answer is: will future government revenue be sufficient to cover government expenditure? In addition to addressing this question, it also provides a suitable framework for economic policy analysis.

The macroeconomic model, DREAM, is developed to analyse the long-term challenges that the welfare state faces. This is achieved by detailed modelling of the institutions that affect the government’s revenue and expenditure. In doing so, the model can also be utilised to evaluate the effect of economic policies.

The so called DREAM-model-system consists of projections of population, education and labor supply (our demographic projections), which feed into the computable general equilibrium dynamic macroeconomic model (the DREAM model) which is calibrated to the Danish economy. These different components allow the DREAM group to perform economic analysis, with a particular emphasis on investigating the public finance sustainability of economic policy.

DREAM is a computable general equilibrium dynamic macroeconomic model which is calibrated to the Danish economy.

The DREAM-model-system

The so called DREAM-model-system consists of projections of population, education and labor supply, which feed into the computable general equilibrium dynamic macroeconomic model DREAM.

About the DREAM-model-system

Our forecast

This report presents the DREAM long-term economic projection model.

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