Quarterly Report on the Euro Area (QREA), Vol. 24, No. 1 (2025)

This Quarterly Report presents research on euro area economic and financial issues, including a new model to break down interest rates, an analysis of housing market trends amid low rates, and a study suggesting that recent corporate profit increases mainly reflected temporary cost pressures.

• Chapter I. A prism decomposition of euro area interest rates
• Chapter II. Selected macroeconomic and social aspects of housing affordability
• Chapter III. Corporate margins and inflation during the post COVID-19 period in the euro area

Information and identifiers

Institutional Paper 322. June 2025. Brussels. PDF. 58pp. Tab. Graph. Bibliogr. Free.

KC-01-25-054-EN-N (online)
ISBN 978-92-68-27423-1 (online) 
ISSN 2443-8014 (online)
doi:10.2765/3521814 (online)

JEL classification : D22, D42, E43, E52, H53, I38, L11, L25, R21

Disclaimer

European Economy Institutional Papers are important reports analysing the economic situation and economic developments prepared by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, which serve to underpin economic policy-making by the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament.