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Germany’s industrial weakness complicated efforts to lift euro area inflation in October 2019. Jonathan Fortun and Robin Brooks trace pressures from the automotive sector, environmental standards and weak exports to the United Kingdom and Turkey. They argue that this downturn compounded deflation risks already associated with unused economic capacity in the euro area periphery.
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Germany’s industrial weakness complicated efforts to lift euro area inflation in October 2019. Jonathan Fortun and Robin Brooks trace pressures from the automotive sector, environmental standards and weak exports to the United Kingdom and Turkey. They argue that this downturn compounded deflation risks already associated with unused economic capacity in the euro area periphery.
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Jonathan Fortun, Robin Brooks (2019). Global Macro Views: Rising Deflation Risk in the Euro Zone. Institute of International Finance.