The financial and economic crisis has drawn attention to the need for a better understanding of destabilising effects that arise in the financial sector and spill over to the real economy. In turn, weakening economic conditions are likely to feed back to the financial sector, thus giving rise to...

The path of output prior to the financial and economic crisis turned out to be not sustainable and lower than previously estimated in some European crisis countries. Specifically, the output gaps have been underestimated (and inversely potential output overestimated) before the recent crisis. It...

The authors analyse 149 newly compiled monthly time series on financial market stress conditions in the euro area. With the aid of a factor model they find different sources of financial stress that are important for selecting and preparing the appropriate policy response. The existence of a...

Nachdem das vierte Quartal des vergangenen Jahres für eine konjunkturelle Abkühlung gesorgt hat, kehrt der Optimismus im neuen Jahr vorsichtig zurück. Stimmungsindikatoren deuten auf eine positive Wachstumsdynamik in den kommenden Monaten hin. Jedoch bleibt die Unsicherheit innerhalb der...

Seit dem Jahr 2002 erstellt das ZEW monatlich ein Konjunkturtableau, welches jeweils zum Zeitpunkt der Veröffentlichung auf www.zew.de und in der Börsen-Zeitung aktuelle Prognosen von Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituten, Banken und Versicherungen zu einer Art Konsensus-Prognose der...

The authors analyze 149 newly compiled monthly time series on financial market stress conditions in the euro area. With the aid of a factor model they find different sources of financial stress which are important for selecting and preparing the appropriate policy response. The existence of a...

The aim of this paper is to assess the dimension of factors and shocks that drive financial conditions, and in particular financial stress in the euro area. A second aim is to construct summary indices on the conditions and level of stress in financial markets with the aid of a dynamic factor...

The path of output prior to the financial and economic crisis turned out to be not sustainable and lower than previously estimated in some European crisis countries. Specifically, the output gaps have been underestimated (and inversely potential output overestimated) before the recent crisis. It...

The financial and economic crisis has drawn attention to the need for a better understanding of destabilising effects that arise in the financial sector and spill over to the real economy. In turn, weakening economic conditions are likely to feed back to the financial sector, thus giving rise to...