This paper documents producer price setting in 6 countries of the euro area: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium 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 …

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 …

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

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

standardised to be used in multi-country studies. Here, it is applied to Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and … countries except Finland. In Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands, both revenue and expenditure contributed to the deterioration … of the structural primary balance. In Germany the large deterioration in revenue was partially offset by the decline in …

firm heterogeneity in shaping aggregate service exports in Belgium, France, Germany and Spain from 2003 to 2007. We … exporters. By contrast, small exporters are the most dynamic contributors to the aggregate exports of Belgium, Germany and Spain … heterogeneity within countries. We find that the weak export growth of France is at least partly due to poor performance by small …