The flipside of this was that many healthy companies were facing serious liquidity constraints due to an inability to supply their products and services. Besides providing timely insights into the development of inflation expectations and pandemic-related effects, our economists use these data to analyse a wide range of topics.
These include, amongst others, climate change, expectations for real estate prices and the effects of central bank communication. Alongside specific research projects, regular economic projections are another important field of application for the Bundesbank Online Panels' data and results. For example, the survey data are used to complement expert judgements about the expected duration of supply chain disruptions.