A joint initiative of leading European economic institutes (Ifo Institute and INSEE, until 2010 with ISAE) to produce short-term forecasts for GDP, consumption, industrial production and inflation in the euro zone.
Methodological note
This quarterly publication is prepared jointly by the German Ifo Institute, the French INSEE institute and the Italian Istat institute. The forecasts are produced with the help of tools shared by the two institutes, using time-series models based on business surveys by national institutes, Eurostat, and the European Commission.
Our joint two-quarter-ahead forecast covers euro-zone industrial production, GDP, consumption, investment, and inflation. Publication is timed to coincide with Eurostat’s second release of quarterly national accounts.
More in-depth economic diagnoses for each country (Germany, France, Italy) is available in:
Current release
Previous releases and methodological note
Ifo Project
Joint Economic Forecast Spring 2012April 2012
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