investigates the behavior of private residential investments for the six largest European economies, namely: Germany, France, Italy …In comparison with the large literature on house prices, housing investments have been studied far less. This paper … to real prices and to other relevant factors. Germany has the strongest response of private residential investments to …

-à-vis Germany in selected euro area countries during the period end-July 2007 to end-March 2009, when the financial turmoil … debt ratios relative to Germany contributed to higher government bond yield spreads in the euro area during the analysed …

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

; it analyses the cross-border consumption behaviour of cross-border commuter households residing in Belgium, France and … Germany and working in Luxembourg. In total, it is estimated that these households spend € 925 million per annum in Luxembourg …

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 …

This paper explores the behavior of profits in the four largest euro area countries (Germany, France, Italy and Spain …