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Working papers
Studies documents
Financial Services Sector Survey, Report April 2017 by GfK Belgium
Workshop documents
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?