approach is exemplified by Germany, where the federal division of labor allows the lower levels of government very little …

for France, Germany, Italy and the UK. It will be particularly interesting to have a closer look at the situation in … Germany, since this country is generally considered a "service laggard" (see summaries of the debate in Cornetz/Schäfer 1999 … holds for the introduction of innovative technology-based business models in service firms. If service sectors in Germany …

With Germany's nuclear phase-out, 23 reactors need to be dismantled in the near future. Initiated by the dire financial …

rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage market maturity. We find that aside from Italy, homeownership rates and … different degree of development of their respective mortgage markets. In Italy, alternative ways of financing, such as family …

countries (the US, West Germany, Denmark, Italy, and the United Kingdom), whose fertility rates span the observed fertility …

, Italy and the UK). The empirical results suggest that inflation in France and Italy is nonstationary. However, while for the … parameters at each frequency separately, and adopt this framework to model quarterly prices in three European countries (France … former country this applies both to the zero and the seasonal frequencies, in the case of Italy the nonstationarity comes …

and the entire euro area (20 percent). For Germany and France the gains seem to be lower, but are nevertheless substantial … majority of countries, the new indicators increase the forecasting performance. The gains over the CCI are striking for Italy …

Using high-frequency transaction data for the three largest European markets (France, Germany and Italy), this paper …

-2% for Germany. The ECB's interventions designed to reduce the risk of a breakup successfully did so for Italy, but … increased it for France and Germany. … of yield curves. At the height of the euro crisis, spreads between first-year yields were close to 7% for Italy and up to …