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Western European car market: Recovery continues

June 19, 2015

Western European car market: Recovery continues

Region:
Germany
Chart in Focus
Topic:
Economic and european policy, Macroeconomics, Sectors and resources
Analyst:
Eric Heymann
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2015New passenger car registrations in the EU-15 rose year on year for the 21st consecutive month in May 2015. True, at 0.8% yoy, growth is relatively low. However, this is due to the fact that the number of potential sales days was lower in some countries in May 2015 than in May 2014. [more]
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Euro-area financial sector: growing and changing

February 23, 2016
Region:
Europe
Topic:
Banking and financial markets
Analyst:
Heike Mai
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41
Despite a small dip in Q3 2015, the assets of financial institutions in the euro area are still broadly at a record level of about EUR 66 trillion. The financial sector – composed of banks, insurance companies & pension funds, and “shadow banks” – more than doubled its size over the past 15 years. Shadow banks have grown the most and now represent 40% of the financial sector with assets estimated at EUR 26 trillion. [more]

Falling oil price benefits pickups and the like in the US

January 28, 2016
Region:
International
Topic:
Sectors and resources
Analyst:
Eric Heymann
Chart in Focus
42
The share of light trucks (such as pickups and heavy sport utility vehicles) in total vehicle sales has increased noticeably in the US of late, reaching a new high of over 60% at the end of 2015. This came at the expense of conventional passenger car sales. The huge slide in oil prices, and thus petrol prices, quite obviously encourages this shift in preferences, as fuel costs become less of an issue for drivers. This is not a favourable development for the German automakers. After all, they command just 4.7% of the light truck market in the US. By contrast, they boast a 12.3% share of the passenger car segment. [more]

Automotive industry dominates German foreign direct investment

December 22, 2015
Region:
Germany
Topic:
Economic and european policy, Macroeconomics, Sectors and resources
Analyst:
Eric Heymann
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43
The manufacturing sector's stock of foreign direct investment (FDI) added up to some EUR 251.1 bn in Germany in 2013. This is equivalent to more than 27% of total German FDI. The data is collated on the basis of the specific business sector to which a German investor belongs. The statistics incorporate the following direct investments of domestic companies and private individuals: firstly, direct cross-border share capital or company voting rights of 10% or more. Secondly, stakes in foreign companies are taken into account if the directly and indirectly (that is via dependent holding companies) held share capital or voting rights exceed the 50% mark. [more]

Transparency of business regulation around the world

December 15, 2015
Region:
International
Topic:
Economic and european policy
Analyst:
Patricia Wruuck
Chart in Focus
44
On a global comparison, business regulation in the EU is quite transparent. Looking at four basic areas that affect firms’ operations, i.e. fees for starting a business, transferring property, construction permits and getting access to electricity, it is easy to access information on these fees. While there are some differences across the four categories – finding out about fees to start a business is easiest while checking on charges to obtain building permits can be trickier – the overall level of transparency is quite high. [more]

Mostly unfavourable labour force dynamics in top-10 economies

October 27, 2015
Topic:
Economic and european policy, Macroeconomics
Analyst:
Markus Jäger
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45
Dependency ratio bottomed out in most advanced and most of the larger emerging economies sometime during the past 10-20 years. The dependency ratio is the ratio of people younger than 15 or older than 64 (so-called dependents) to those aged 15-64 (working-age population). Even China’s dependency ratio hit its sweet spot in 2010 and will rise rapidly over the coming decades. [more]

EMU: Money's tight in Southern Europe

August 7, 2015
Region:
Europe
Topic:
Banking and financial markets, Economic and european policy, Macroeconomics
Analyst:
Anamaria Piloiu, Thomas Meyer
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46
It is the classical dilemma of any currency union that a single monetary policy cannot possibly be appropriate for everybody if members are at very different stages of the business cycle. To get a feel for the scale of monetary (mis-)alignment, we calculate central bank rates as implied by a modified Taylor rule. [more]

International tourism: Chinese becoming bigger and bigger spenders

July 3, 2015
Topic:
Macroeconomics, Sectors and resources
Analyst:
Eric Heymann
Chart in Focus
48
In 2014 the Chinese spent nearly USD 170 bn on tourism services abroad. This makes them runaway leaders in the spending statistics ahead of tourists from the US (USD 112 bn) and Germany (USD 92 bn). The growth rate recorded by China over recent years has been particularly impressive: between 2000 and 2014 the Chinese increased their international tourism spending by an average of 20% per year. [more]

Rent or buy? Structural differences in Europe

April 20, 2015
Topic:
Banking and financial markets, Economic and european policy, Real estate
Analyst:
Patricia Wruuck
Chart in Focus
49
In Europe, Switzerland and Germany have long trailed at the bottom of the league in terms of residential ownership, despite increases versus the 1990s. The reasons for this are complex: both countries have a relatively well developed rental market – to some extent the reason for and the consequence of the lower owner share. [more]

Corporate funding in Europe: Bonds replacing loans?

June 11, 2013
Region:
Europe
Topic:
Banking and financial markets, Economic and european policy
Analyst:
Jan Schildbach
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52
Since the height of the financial crisis at the end of 2008, the use of different debt finance instruments by companies in the euro area has been diverging remarkably: whereas the outstanding volume of traditional bank loans has fallen by about EUR 360 bn on aggregate (-7.4%), net issuance of corporate bonds (i.e. long-term debt securities) has amounted to almost exactly the same cumulative (but positive) figure over the same period of time (a rise by 63%). [more]
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