Benner, Joachim; Carstensen, Kai; Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004
The economic recovery in the euro area has accelerated in the course of 2004. During the first two quarters, real GDP rose at an annual rate of slightly over 2 percent, after about 1½ percent in the second half of 2003. For the first time since 2001, overall capacity utilization increased....