Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153843 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1410
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper explores the behavior of profits in the four largest euro area countries (Germany, France, Italy and Spain) and the euro area as a whole, while at the same time considering three main sectors (manufacturing, construction and services) in each economy over the period 1988–2010. The paper presents stylized facts about profit developments and, applying a vector autoregressive modeling framework, discusses the sensitivity of profits to four distinctive structural shocks (a demand shock, an employment shock, a wage and price mark-up shocks). In addition, it provides the shock decomposition of historical developments in profits across countries and sectors.
Subjects: 
historical decomposition
Impulse responses
Profits
sectoral determinants
VARs
JEL: 
C32
E23
E25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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