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2026, volume 8

Liquidity conditions and monetary policy operations from 30 July to 4 November 2025

Kristian Tötterman and Samuel Bieber

Inside the food basket: what is behind recent food inflation?

Colm Bates, Friderike Kuik, Elisabeth Wieland and Zivile Zekaite

Holding on: labour hoarding and firms’ expectations

Katalin Bodnár, Vasco Botelho, Laura Lebastard and Marco Weißler

Has housing regained its allure? Insights from a new survey-based housing Sharpe ratio

Niccolò Battistini, Adam Baumann, Johannes Gareis and Desislava Rusinova

The household saving rate revisited: recent dynamics and underlying drivers

Maria Dimou, Marco Flaccadoro and Johannes Gareis

Tracking trade in real time: augmenting the nowcasting toolkit with satellite data

Rinalds Gerinovics and Baptiste Meunier

From text to trouble: understanding the limits of text-derived trade policy uncertainty measures

Maximilian Schröder

Bulgaria adopts the euro

Matteo Falagiarda, Christine Gartner and Steffen Osterloh

2026, volume 6

Liquidity conditions and monetary policy operations from 6 May to 28 July 2026

Samuel Bieber and Christian Lizarazo

US equity market developments during the AI boom

Magdalena Grothe, Bruno Lopes Mendes, Ana-Simona Manu and Luca Tondo

The evolution of financial conditions in the euro area and the United States: a Macro-Finance FCI perspective

Tilman Bletzinger, Giulia Martorana and Jakub Mistak

The uneven journey of wholesale gas and electricity prices to consumer bills

Friderike Kuik, Eliza Lis and Johannes Schäfer

Main results of the latest euro area demographic projections

Stephan Haroutunian, Leo Orlygsson and Joachim Schroth

Navigating uncertainty: how the Middle East conflict is shaping expectations and coping strategies of firms

Katalin Bodnár, Davide Fantino, Sara Lamboglia and Laura Lebastard

Which countries are most vulnerable to the industrial rise of China? Mapping Europe’s uneven exposure

Ginevra Aguiari, Francesco Chiacchio, Matteo Falagiarda, Vanessa Gunnella and Emiel Cornelius Marchand

2026, volume 5

Assessing the scope for compensatory fiscal measures in response to the recent energy shock

Othman Bouabdallah, Cristina Checherita-Westphal and Philip Muggenthaler-Gerathewohl

The ECB-BIG index: tracking credit conditions in the euro area

Anastasia Allayioti, Paola Di Casola and Giacomo Magistretti

Capturing inflation expectations (de-)anchoring and what survey-based metrics are telling us

Colm Bates, Aidan Meyler, Giovanni Trebbi and Zivile Zekaite

Main findings from the ECB’s recent contacts with non-financial companies

Catherine Elding, Richard Morris, Zsuzsanna Riedel and Moreno Roma

Youth employment amidst cooling labour demand

David Chaloupka and António Dias Da Silva

Feeling the heat unevenly: energy prices and household consumption

Alina Bobasu and Michael Dobrew

Tracing the ripple effects of the Middle East war on euro area consumption

Neus Dausà i Noguera, Maria Dimou and Omiros Kouvavas

Europe’s venture capital gap and the financing of high-growth firms

Adam Baumann, Zakaria Gati, Francesca Vinci and Gerome Wolf

2026, volume 4

The narrowing of the euro area current account balance in 2025

Lorenz Emter, Michael Fidora, Fausto Pastoris and Martin Schmitz

Liquidity conditions and monetary policy operations from 11 February to 5 May 2026

Samuel Bieber and Christelle Puyo

What has kept goods inflation low? The role of the import exposure to China

Pablo Anaya Longaric, Claudia Esposito, Vanessa Gunnella, Noémie Lecourt, Catalina Martínez Hernández and Giacomo Pongetti

Tracking euro area labour market developments through restructuring announcements

Claudia Foroni and Nikolaos Papadatos

Higher oil prices from the war in the Middle East: assessing the headwinds for euro area growth

Johannes Gareis

State aid in the EU: an evolving landscape

Roberto Bernasconi, Emma Domingo Enrich, Vasileios Kostakis, Steffen Osterloh and Lucia Quaglietti

How US financial markets react to geopolitical shocks hitting oil supply

Massimo Ferrari Minesso, Bruno Lopes Mendes, Arthur Stalla-Bourdillon and Viktória Vidaházy

AI and the US labour market: effects on employment growth

Isabella Moder and Til Pommer

2026, volume 3

What’s new in the HICP? The 2026 classification update and its implications for inflation analysis

Martin Eiglsperger, Katalin Bodnár, Rania Bouhaouita Haddad and Elisabeth Wieland

Main findings from the ECB’s recent contacts with non-financial companies

Catherine Elding, Friderike Kuik, Aidan Meyler and Richard Morris

What drives employment trends among older workers?

Nina Furbach and Afonso S. Moura

Save your energy: how the war in the Middle East could affect household savings and the economy

Niccolò Battistini, Alina Bobasu, Rodolfo Dinis Rigato and Hanno Kase

Dispersion in real GDP growth across euro area countries: developments and drivers

Niccolò Battistini, Johannes Gareis and Richard Morris

The impact of China’s industrial rise on the euro area

Alessandra Amicucci, Nicolò Gnocato, Vanessa Gunnella, Clara Lindemann, Alfonso Merendino and Carlos Montes-Galdón

Assessing cross-border integration of equity markets in the euro area: evidence from a gravity model

Pablo Anaya Longaric, Lisa Bellinghausen, Laura Parisi, Lucia Quaglietti and Fons van Overbeek

2026, volume 2

Liquidity conditions and monetary policy operations from 5 November 2025 to 10 February 2026

Christian Lizarazo and Kristian Tötterman

Financial and macroeconomic implications of the rise in very long-term yields

Tilman Bletzinger, Ambra Boilini, Christoph Kaufmann, Giulio Nicoletti, Melina Papoutsi and Johannes Pöschl

Adopting and investing in AI: evidence from euro area firms in the SAFE

Annalisa Ferrando, Sara Lamboglia, Judit Rariga and Maurice Schmidt

From bricks to clicks: an assessment of euro area digital investment

Malin Andersson, Sara Colombo, Valerie Jarvis and Richard Morris

How is trade policy uncertainty affecting euro area activity?

Alina Bobasu and Beatrice Pierluigi

Non-linearities in oil prices: which conditions matter?

Vlad Burian and Arthur Stalla-Bourdillon

Unlocking trade potential: the benefits of improving cross-border payments

Massimo Ferrari Minesso, Laura Lebastard and Olga Triay Bagur

Where do the costs of higher US tariffs fall?

Stefan Schaefer, Lisa Gerland and Marcel Tirpák

2026, volume 1

Estimating the time-varying reserve elasticity of money market rates in the euro area

Flavia Ungarelli and Thomas Kostka

Main findings from the ECB’s recent contacts with non-financial companies

Gabe de Bondt, Richard Morris and Moreno Roma

The fundamental drivers of recent developments in euro area housing investment

Johannes Gareis

Consumption and saving amid uncertainty: recent insights from the CES

Maria Dimou, Maarten Dossche, Teresa Hütten and Georgi Kocharkov

Drivers of electricity prices across households and energy-intensive industries and their importance for the EU’s decarbonisation objectives

Daniela Arlia and John Hutchinson

Global trade redirection: tracking the role of trade diversion from US tariffs in Chinese export developments

Julien Le Roux and Tajda Spital