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Working papers
Studies documents
Financial Services Sector Survey, Report April 2017 by GfK Belgium
Workshop documents
12th Joint EC/OECD Workshop on recent developments in Business and Consumer Surveys
8-9 October 2026, Brussels
Alexandros Charos, WIFO - The results of the ad hoc module “Adjustments to export and import strategies in markets outside the EU” in light of the WIFO Industry survey
Raymond Ooms, CBS - Impact of economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions on firms
Máté Mihályi, Pál Péter Kolozsi, GKI - Tracking the Visibility of Economic Sentiment Indicators in Hungary
Özgül Atılgan Ayanoğlu, Esteban Callejas Pérez, EC - Economy-wide BCS indicators for capacity utilisation and factors limiting production
Hubert Stefaniak, Statistics Poland - The changes in NACE and their impact on business tendency survey in Statistics Poland
Darius Keijdener, CBS - NACE revision Statistics Netherlands
Daniel Roash, CBS - Preliminary Analysis Following Changes in the Shekel-Dollar Exchange Rate and its Impact on Israeli Businesses
Patrick Sabourin, Bank of Canada - Under the Microscope: What Does the consumer sentiment (Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectation Indicator) Tell Us, actually?
Joanne W. Hsu, University of Michigan - Sentiment, Web-Based Data Collection, and Partisanship
Özgül Atılgan Ayanoğlu, EC - Changeover to NACE 2.1
Christian Gayer, EC - Business survey data granularity & review of consumer categories
Esteban Callejas Pérez, Irene Gkiouleka, EC - Programming of 2027 ad hoc questions, outlook on 2028
Viet Nguyen, University of Melbourne - Measuring Political Polarisation using Consumer Expectations Surveys
Abdul Khalim, Bank of Indonesia - A Rule-Based Early Warning System for Regional Inflation Management Protocol Evidence from Food Price Stabilization in North Sumatra
Georgios Gatopoulos, IOBE - The role of economic uncertainty in the investment and employment gap in the Greek economy
Irene Gkiouleka, Staffan Lindén, EC - Revised confidence indicators for industry, retail trade and construction
Klaus Wohlrabe, IFO - Symmetric, Constant, and Homogeneous? Testing the Implicit Assumptions of the Balance Statistic in Business Surveys
Anja Bauer, NIM - Automatic-coding: A use-case for Consumer Climate Deep Dives
Klaus Wohlrabe, IFO - Question Order and Expectation Formation Experimental Evidence from a Business Survey
Emmanuelle Guidetti, OECD and Klaus Abberger, KOF - Summary and concluding remarks of the two panel sessions of the 38th CIRET Conference
EU Workshop on Business and Consumer Surveys
16-17 October 2025, Brussels
Ermelinda Kristo, BoA - Shared concerns, resilient consumer confidence: understanding consumer sentiment in Albania
Roberta Friz, EC - Analysis of the investment survey in industry and services
Hubert Stefaniak, PL STAT - Results on investments in Statistics Poland's BTS - regular survey vs. ad-hoc questions
Koen van't Boveneind, Harm van Hees, CBS- Impact of trade tensions on business strategies and other ad hoc questions in NL
Klaus Wohlrabe, IFO - Trump's reelection and its causal effects of business expectations of German firms
Andreas Reuter, EC - Shock waves from turbulent times: How EU businesses recalibrate supply chains - Results of the 2025 EIB/DG GROW supply chain survey
Kübra Yıldız Özertaş, TCMB - Determinants of firms' inflation expectations
Luigi Longo, EC - Nowcasting EU GDP growth with business and consumer survey data and other shortterm statistics
Staffan Linden, EC - Firms' response to tensions and policy changes in foreign markets: Results of the 2025 ad hoc question in the harmonised business surveys, lessons learned and programming for 2026
Roberta Friz, EC - Results of the 2025 ad hoc question in the harmonised consumer survey, lessons learned and programming for 2026
Juraj Lecký, SORS - The decline in response rates for business surveys: Season 2, Episode 1
Christian Gayer, EC - Harmonisation Issues CONS and SERV
Kamil Franiszyn, PL STAT - Business tendency in the agricultural sector – Cognitive and diagnostic value
Irene Gkiouleka, EC - Review of the composition and performance of the Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI)
Klaus Wohlrabe, IFO - Trump's reelection and its causal effects of business expectations of German firms
Werner Hölzl, WiFo - Uncertainty and Business Situation Expectations and elections in Austria 1982 – 2024
Clement Bortoli, INSEE - Exploring consumers’ savings behaviour in France: empirical evidence from ad-hoc questions added to regular consumer survey
Staffan Linden, EC - A new saving rate indicator
11th Joint EC/OECD workshop on recent developments in business and consumer surveys
17-18 October 2024, Brussels
Christian Buelens, Staffan Lindén, EC - Self-declared and revealed inflation inattention in consumer surveys
Eugene Chang, Emmanuelle Guidetti, Annabelle Mourougane, OECD - Hey <AI Assistant>, are we in recession now? A review of Business Cycle Turning Point Detection
Roberta Friz, EC - Can managers' selling price expectations predict short-term developments in HICP inflation?
Stephanie Guichard, TCB - Consumer confidence and the economy – Post-pandemic insights from the US
Klaus Friesenbichler, Christian Glocker, Werner Hölzl, AT Wifo - The Austrian Supply Chain Pressure Index (ASCPI)
Damian Loscher, IE IPSOS - Ireland’s economy and the challenges it poses for conducting surveys
Anastasija Neradová, CZ CZSO - Drivers of Consumer Confidence in the Euro Area
Patrick Sabourin, Bank of Canada - When the future is hard to predict; the impacts of uncertainty on expectations and consumption spending
Agnesa Nimanaj, Klaus Wohlrabe, DE IFO - Response Times in Business Surveys: When, how long, and determinants
Florian Dorn, Jonas Hennrich, Klaus Wohlrabe, DE IFO - Does soccer boost economic sentiment?