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

over the Internet.It includes more than 5 million daily price quotes downloaded from price comparison web sites in France …, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US. The following results emerge from our analysis. First, and contrary to the recent findings …

competition on the lending markets in the five major euro countries as well as, for comparison, the UK, the US and Japan. Bearing … market, whereas overall loan markets in Germany and Spain were among the best competitive in the EU. The Netherlands occupied … to be more competitive, particularly in Germany and the US, than savings and cooperative banks …

We forecast recession probabilities for the United States, Germany and Japan. The predictions are based on the widely … reached for the United States, the ProbVAR forecasts are slightly worse for Germany, but considerably inferior for Japan …