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589: Forecasting economic aggregates by disaggregates

David F. Hendry and Kirstin Hubrich

588: Rational inattention, inflation developments and perceptions after the euro cash changeover

Michael Ehrmann

587: Determinants of business cycle synchronisation across euro area countries

Uwe Böwer and Catherine Guillemineau

586: A method to generate structural impulse-responses for measuring the effects of shocks in structural macro models

Andreas Beyer and Roger E. A. Farmer

585: Are specific skills an obstacle to labor market adjustment? Theory and an application to the EU enlargement

Ana Lamo, Julian Messina and Etienne Wasmer

584: A new theory of forecasting

Simone Manganelli

583: Back to square one: identification issues in DSGE models

Fabio Canova and Luca Sala

582: Bank interest rate pass-through in the euro area: a cross country comparison

Florin O. Bilbiie, André Meier and Gernot J. Müller

581: Public sector efficiency: evidence for new EU member states and emerging markets

Antonio Afonso, Ludger Schuknecht and Vito Tanzi

580: Bank interest rate pass-through in the euro area: a cross country comparison

Christoffer Kok Sørensen and Thomas Werner

579: A disaggregated framework for the analysis of structural developments in public finances

Jana Kremer, Claudia Rodrigues Braz, Teunis Brosens, Geert Langenus, Sandro Momigliano and Mikko Spolander

578: Forecasting ECB monetary policy - accuracy is (still) a matter of geography

Helge Berger, Michael Ehrmann and Marcel Fratzscher

577: Distortionary taxation, debt, and the price level

Andreas Schabert and Leopold von Thadden

576: Debt stabilizing fiscal rules

Philippe Michel, Leopold von Thadden and Vidal, Jean-Pierre

575: Growth in euro area labour quality

Guido Schwerdt and Jarkko Turunen

574: Inflation convergence and divergence within the European Monetary Union

Fabio Busetti, Lorenzo Forni, Andrew C. Harvey and Fabrizio Venditti

573: Credit chains and the propagation of financial distress

Frédéric Boissay

572: Information, habits, and consumption behavior - evidence from micro data

Mika Kuismanen and Luigi Pistaferri

571: Are emerging market currency crises predictable? A test

Tuomas A. Peltonen

570: Household debt sustainability - What explains household non-performing loans? An empirical analysis

Laura Rinaldi and Sanchis-Arellano, Alicia

569: Towards European monetary integration - the evolution of currency risk premium as a measure for monetary convergence prior to the implementation of currency unions

Fernando González and Simo Launonen

568: Exploring the international linkages of the euro area - a global VAR analysis

Stephane Dees, Filippo di Mauro, M Hashem Pesaran and L. Vanessa Smith

567: Is time ripe for a currency union in emerging East Asia? The role of monetary stabilisation

Marcelo Sánchez

566: Real versus financial frictions to capital investment

Nihal Bayraktar, Plutarchos Sakellaris and Philip Vermeulen

565: The timing of central bank communication

Michael Ehrmann and Marcel Fratzscher

564: Forecasting the central bank’s inflation objective is a good rule of thumb

Marie Diron and Benoit Mojon

563: Sticky prices in the euro area - a summary of new micro evidence

Luis J. Álvarez, Emmanuel Dhyne, Marco Hoeberichts, Claudia Kwapil, Hervé LE BIHAN, Patrick Lünnemann, Roberto Sabbatini, Fernando Manuel Monteiro Martins, Harald Edgar Stahl, Philip Vermeulen and Jouko Vilmunen

562: The price setting behaviour of Portuguese firms - evidence from survey data

Fernando Manuel Monteiro Martins

561: Price setting in German manufacturing: new evidence from new survey data

Harald Edgar Stahl

560: The determinants of ‘domestic’ original sin in emerging market economies

Arnaud Jérôme Mehl and Julien Reynaud

559: When did unsystematic monetary policy have an effect on inflation?

Benoit Mojon

558: Ricardian fiscal regimes in the European Union

Antonio Afonso

557: How should central banks communicate?

Michael Ehrmann and Marcel Fratzscher

556: The role of real wage rigidity and labor market frictions for unemployment and inflation dynamics

Kai Christoffel and Tobias Linzert

555: Near-rational exuberance

James Bullard, George William Evans and Seppo Mikko Sakari Honkapohja

554: Equilibrium and inefficiency in fixed rate tenders

Christian Ewerhart, Nuno Cassola and Natacha Valla

553: Global bond portfolios and EMU

Philip Lane

552: European Union enlargement and equity markets in accession countries

Tomas Dvorak and Richard Podpiera

551: Technological diversification

Miklós Koren and Silvana Tenreyro

550: Underwriter competition and gross spreads in the eurobond market

Michael G. Kollo

549: Eigenvalue filtering in VAR models with application to the Czech business cycle

Jaromír Beneš and David Vavra

548: The link between interest rates and exchange rates - do contractionary depreciations make a difference?

Marcelo Sánchez

547: Bank finance versus bond finance - what explains the differences between US and Europe?

Fiorella De Fiore and Harald Uhlig

546: The natural real interest rate and the output gap in the euro area - a joint estimation

Julien Garnier and Wilhelmsen, Bjørn-Roger

545: Trade integration of Central and Eastern European countries - lessons from a gravity model

Matthieu Bussiere, Jarko Fidrmuc and Bernd Schnatz

544: Forecasting the yield curve in a data-rich environment - a no-arbitrage factor-augmented VAR approach

Emanuel Mönch (Emanuel Moench)

543: Lending booms in the new EU Member States - will euro adoption matter?

Michal Brzoza-Brzezina

542: Liquidity and real equilibrium interest rates - a framework of analysis

Livio Stracca

541: Consumer price behaviour in Luxembourg - evidence from micro CPI data

Patrick Lünnemann and Thomas Mathä

540: Optimal discretionary policy and uncertainty about inflation persistence

Richhild Moessner