the result of low TFP and thus GDP growth-not the cause …

wage growth and inflation in Europe and factors that influence the strength of the passthrough from labor costs to prices …. Historically, wage growth has led to higher inflation, but the impact has weakened since 2009. Empirical analysis suggests that the … passthrough from wage growth to inflation is significantly lower in periods of subdued inflation and inflation expectations …

The services sector is increasingly important for the euro area economy, but productivity growth in the sector has …

conditional profitability distributions. Real GDP growth and the NPL ratio are shown to be the most reliable determinants of bank … profitability. However, the estimated conditional distributions reveal that, while higher growth would raise profits on average, a …