In this paper we present an international cross-country benchmarking analysis for utility regulation of France and … Germany, the two largest electricity distribution countries in Europe. We examine the relative performance of 99 French and 77 …

(represented by the real GDP), the economic sentiment indicator, and real interest rate for the five European countries: Germany …, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. We find that even when accounting for expectations, represented by the economic …

European economies (France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom). Using survey data on household and expert inflation …

including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as …

professional forecasters from four major European economies. Our estimates imply that inflation expectations in France, Germany and …

and the entire euro area (20 percent). For Germany and France the gains seem to be lower, but are nevertheless substantial …

We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, Spain, and Greece based on the Household Finance … of household wealth in Germany jumps up from 24 percent in the HFCS alone to 33 percent after top wealth imputation. For … France and Spain we find only a small effect of the imputation since rich households are better captured in the survey. The …