policy response has been to focus on the ratio of private sector credit to GDP for an economy, observing, in particular …-state relationship between private sector credit and GDP in the case of Ireland, a country which, even by international standards …

This paper derives forecasts for euro area real GDP growth based on a bottom up approach from the production side. That … is, GDP is forecast via the forecasts of value added across the different branches of activity, which is quite new in the … indicators are used to bridge the gap of missing GDP data. The process of selecting the best performing equations is accomplished …

panel of 33 countries, including the ten EU acceding countries and structural current account positions are derived. A …

by Brownlees and Engle (2011) for a panel of 65 large US banks over the last decade and a half. Running panel regressions …

is one indicator consistently outperforming the other in terms of explaining and forecasting euro area exports. This …

Traditionally, exports behavior is modeled only as a function of the foreign demand and the real exchange rate. However …, it is by now widely acknowledged that these variables are not able to fully explain exports developments. This paper … the short-run dynamics of exports. Moreover, it is found that this relationship is asymmetric, being stronger and more …

find that domestic demand developments are relevant for the short-run dynamics of exports in particular during more extreme …

the impact of unit labor costs on exports. We use exports adjusted for their import content. We find a statistically … margin of exports ranging between -0.2 and -0.4. This result is robust to various specifications, including firm, time and … sector fixed effects and estimation approaches. We find that this elasticity varies between sectors and between firms, with …