Recently, exports of consumer goods, mainly household electric appliances such as television sets and radios, have been decreasing while their imports have been increasing, and exports of capital goods and parts such as electronic machinery and automobile parts have been increasing significantly.
They provide around three quarters of credit funding from financial institutions to non-financial corporates in the euro area. [5] And thanks to sound regulation and supervision in the wake of the global financial crisis, banks have benefitted from stronger capital and liquidity buffers in recent years.