professional forecasters from four major European economies. Our estimates imply that inflation expectations in France, Germany and … the United Kingdom are updated about once a year, in Italy about once each six months …

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 …

in Germany and Italy, which are characterized by a large number of banks; but it is very weak in Spain and more … homogeneous in France, where the banking industry has a higher degree of market concentration. Second, there is some evidence that … savings banks with smaller size in Italy. Third, heterogeneity across groups of banks belonging to the same category in any …

differentials in explaining city-level house price dispersion in Germany, France, and the US (but not in Italy or Spain once …

investigates the behavior of private residential investments for the six largest European economies, namely: Germany, France, Italy … house price changes whereas Italy shows the lowest responses. In Spain investments seem to be primarily related to their …