Nach Berechnungen des DIW Berlin ist das Bruttoinlandsprodukt im Euroraum im ersten Quartal 2002 um 0,3 % gestiegen; dies entspricht einer laufenden Jahresrate von 1,2 %. Damit scheint die konjunkturelle Schwäche vom vergangenen Jahr allmählich abzuklingen. Die leichte Erholung ist vor allem...

The preparations for the introduction of the euro in 1999 involved the need for a new set of statistics for the euro area. Since then, significant progress has been made with regard to the coverage, timeliness and accuracy of these statistics. The reliability of the first releases – i.e. their...

The first official data releases of quarterly real GDP for the euro area are published about eight weeks after the end of the reference quarters. Meanwhile, ongoing economic developments must be assessed from various, more readily available, monthly indicators. We examine in the context of...

This paper analyses the information content of M1 for euro area real GDP since the beginning of the 1980s and reviews theoretical arguments on why real narrow money should help predict real GDP. We find that, unlike in the U.S., in the euro area, M1 has better and more robust forecasting...