This work provides a comprehensive overview of the giant leap made by European central bank statistics over the last quarter century. We illustrate, first, the work that led to a brand-new set of central bank statistics for the implementation of the common monetary policy in the euro area and...

Insights are offered into the interactions of EUA and CER emissions prices with key energy markets across the EU. A wide range of regional gas and power markets, in addition to global oil markets, are considered. Power prices are broken down by base, peak and off-peak to account for regional...

Die Kumulation von Haushaltsstichproben steht auf der Agenda einer europäischen Neuordnung von Haushaltsbefragungen. Im Rahmen des Projektes "Amtliche Statistik und sozioökonomische Fragestellungen" des Statistischen Bundesamtes und in Abstimmung mit den EUROSTAT-Erfordernissen für neue...

In order to study the effect of sector-specific regulation on industry behavior and market outcome, regulatory density must be measured. The "Polynomics Telecommunication Regulation Index 2012" aims to provide such a measure for telecommunications. It is based on coded answers to almost 30...

Cette étude par ordre de la Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) fournit un aperçu préliminaire au sujet de la définition et du système statistique de l'Union Européenne concernant les PME. La définition européenne des PME est examinée en particulier relative à l'inclusion...

Since January 1999, according to the law, the common monetary policy for all the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) Member States should be decided by simple majority in the Governing Council (GC) of the European Central Bank (ECB), regarding the Euro area aggregate conditions. Notwithstanding,...

We model economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in the four largest euro area countries by applying machine learning techniques to news articles. The unsupervised machine learning algorithm used makes it possible to retrieve the individual components of overall EPU endogenously for a wide range of...

This paper is enhancing the four-factor fixed income asset pricing model initially developed by Elton et al. (1995). Progress into fixed income asset pricing has been slow, and there is still no consensus of which combinations of bond indexes are most suitable for explaining the returns of fixed...

This paper compares the survey results on savings deposits and estimates on total financial assets from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) in Austria with administrative records from the national accounts for the household sector. The micro data newly generated through the HFCS...