This paper documents producer price setting in 6 countries of the euro area: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Portugal. It collects evidence from available studies on each of those countries and also provides new evidence. These studies use monthly producer price data. The following...

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...

This paper documents producer price setting in 6 countries of the euro area: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Portugal. It collects evidence from available studies on each of those countries and also provides new evidence. These studies use monthly producer price data. The following...

Realwirtschaftliche Indikatoren deuten daraufhin, dass die Schwächephase der deutschen Konjunktur im Früh-sommer ausläuft. So werden im Baugewerbe die witterungsbedingten Produktionsausfälle aufgeholt, und Aktivi-täten zur Beseitigung der Hochwasserschäden kommen hinzu. Auch der private...