This paper examines whether sell-side equity analysts use labor market information, as reflected in job postings and corporate layoffs, to improve the quality of their earnings forecasts. We posit that labor market activities contain useful incremental information about the related firm and the...

Artículo de revista ; Interest rates on new lending to households for purposes other than house purchase are generally higher in Spain than in other euro area countries. This may be because borrowers have different characteristics, or because Spanish households pay higher interest rates than...

Artículo de revista ; The tax incentive enjoyed by workplace pension schemes could encourage participants to increase their total savings or, alternatively, crowd out savings that would have materialised in other financial vehicles in the absence of this incentive. This article uses data from...