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The new Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation («PERTE» project) approved by the government in May could provide a boost to the Spanish automotive industry, one of the hardest hit by the current shortage of microchips, which are increasingly necessary for the production of electric vehicles.

https://www.caixabankresearch.com/en/economics-markets/public-sector/chip-perte-project-will-spain-manage-gain-foothold-microchip

While economists have been incorporating big data into their analyses for a number of years now, the COVID-19 pandemic has produced a veritable revolution in real-time economics. The latest contribution from the CaixaBank Research team to this revolution is the Real-time economics portal, launched on 8 November 2022.

https://www.caixabankresearch.com/en/economics-markets/recent-developments/real-time-economics-new-portal-caixabank-research

Meeting climate targets depends heavily on public and private investment and their effects on the development of new technologies. Therefore, much of the economic momentum since COVID has focused on encouraging this ecological transition. In this article, we explore how the US government and, above all, the European Union and its Member States are incentivising it.

https://www.caixabankresearch.com/en/economics-markets/public-sector/eus-answer-inflation-reduction-act-you-cannot-have-dessert-until

Having overcome the crisis triggered by the pandemic, which caused debt-to-GDP levels to skyrocket, debt ratios have now resumed the downward trajectory they were on prior to COVID. In particular, in the private sector, both businesses and households already have lower levels of debt than before the pandemic and much lower than they had during the financial crisis of 2008. All this, together with the greater weight of fixed-rate debt, puts them in a less vulnerable position to cope with the rise in interest rates.

https://www.caixabankresearch.com/en/economics-markets/activity-growth/spanish-households-and-businesses-continue-deleverage

Economic activity managed to rebound firmly and across the board in Q3, but the second wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections has led to a further tightening of mobility restrictions in many countries (especially in Europe), and most indicators suggest that economic activity will contract once again in the current fourth quarter. But
how much of a contraction are we talking about?

https://www.caixabankresearch.com/en/economics-markets/recent-developments/mobility-and-economic-activity-second-wave-how-much-will-gdp