This paper documents the aggregated performance of non-financial corporations in the largest euro area economies and compares it with the performance of the US corporate sector as reported by National Economic Accounts and Financial Accounts. We find significant cross-country structural...

Artículo de revista ; The residential real estate market has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which broke out at a time when the cycle of this market was in a mature phase. Activity fell off sharply in the early months of the health crisis, owing to the effect of the restrictions...

Motivación Analizar las tendencias recientes de la oferta y la demanda de vivienda, así como los factores que contribuyen a ellas, resulta de gran utilidad para identificar el surgimiento o la existencia de desequilibrios en este mercado, caracterizado por un elevado desfase temporal en la...

Rationale Analysis of recent housing supply and demand trends, and of the factors contributing to them, is extremely useful to detect the emergence or existence of imbalances in the housing market, which is characterised by long lead times for house building. Takeaways •After the initial...

The article analyses recent developments in business investment for a large group of EU countries, using a broad set of analytical tools and data sources. We find that the assessment of whether or not investment is currently low varies across benchmarks and countries. At the euro area level and...