The Consumer Expectations Survey (CES) is an important new tool for analysing euro area household economic behaviour … and gross domestic product (GDP) growth, the labour market, housing market activity and house prices, and consumer finance … qualitative euro area information in a timely manner that facilitates direct cross-country comparisons. During the pilot phase, it …

euro area and for supervising all euro area banks in order to ensure their safety and soundness, some directly and some …

in the euro area and the EU using an anonymised micro data set collected by the European Commission in the context of the …, education and gender. Although many of the features highlighted for the EU and the euro area aggregates are valid across …

-term expectations for macroeconomic variables such as euro area inflation, growth and unemployment. This paper provides an initial …

first is the global financial crisis in 2008-09, and the second is the euro area sovereign debt crisis in 2010-12. Both … sequence of financial reforms has improved the sector's ability to deal with major macro-financial shocks at the EU/euro area …