The German economy is stuck in a difficult position as it faces both slow growth as well as structural change. The continuing lack of orders in manufacturing, increasing international competition, and sluggish development in industry-related services are now affecting the labor market and...

Real construction volume is expected to decline for the fifth year in a row: A decline of nearly four percent is expected for 2024 and it should fall by almost one percent in 2025. However, the construction industry may manage to reverse the trend in 2026, when real construction volume is...

Following the construction boom of recent years in Germany, inflation and supply bottlenecks hit the industry hard in 2022. While nominal construction volume increased by nearly 14 percent, it decreased by two percent when adjusted for inflation. Residential construction, which is urgently...

Nach dem Boom der Bauwirtschaft in den vergangenen Jahren haben im Jahr 2022 Inflation und Lieferengpässe der Branche schwer zu schaffen gemacht, Zwar ist das Bau volumen nominal nochmals um fast 14 Prozent gestiegen, inflationsbereinigt ging es allerdings um zwei Prozent zurück. Besonders...

Nach der leichten Rezession im Winter ist die deutsche Wirtschaft mittlerweile auf Erholungskurs. Zwar haben der Krieg in der Ukraine, die Rekordinflation und die befürchtete Gasmangellage ihre Spuren hinterlassen und die deutsche Wirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft gezogen. Ein drastischer...

Hohe Baupreise und verschlechterte Finanzierungsbedingungen belasten die Bauwirtschaft - insbesondere den Hochbau. Nominal legten die Ausgaben für Bauleistungen im Jahr 2023 zwar noch um sechs Prozent zu, preisbereinigt sanken sie aber um gut ein Prozent. In diesem Jahr dürfte auch wegen...

High construction prices and worsened financing conditions are weighing on the construction industry, especially build-ing construction. Despite a nominal increase of six percent in construction expenses in 2023, it decreased by just over one percent in inflation-adjusted terms. In 2024, the...

The German economy will likely contract in the first quarter of 2024 due to still heightened inflation and weak demand, which was already weighing on German economic output in 2023. Inflation, which is falling in both Germany and the euro area overall, is expected to return close to the European...

This paper examines how news coverage of the European Central Bank (ECB) affects consumer inflation expectations in the four largest euro area countries. Utilizing a unique dataset of multilingual European news articles, we measure the impact of ECB-related inflation news on inflation...