ZEW Business Cycle Tableaus
OverviewZEW regularly monitors and analyses current economic developments in Germany and the eurozone in its monthly economic forecasts. In doing so, our researchers rely on existing forecasts by economists from banks, research institutes and supranational institutions, which they compile and evaluate.
The ZEW Business Cycle Tableaus should not be confused with the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment published as part of the Financial Market Report.
Business Cycle Tableaus with Macroeconomic Indicators and Forecasts
From January 2013 on, ZEW will publish monthly business cycle tableaus for Germany and the Eurozone in cooperation with Börsen-Zeitung. The tableaus will show current forecasts for Gross Domestic Product (GDP), its main components, consumer price inflation, industrial production, unemployment rate, short- and long-term interest rates, and interest rate spreads.
Numerous banks and economic research institutes regularly publish reports on the current and future economic situation in Germany and the Eurozone. We scan these publications and compile the relevant information to compute a median, minimum and maximum of the available forecasts for the current and subsequent year. We mainly focus on national business cycle reports and complement the tableaus with forecasts form international banks and institutes. The tableau for the Eurozone is augmented by data from European banks and institutes.
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