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IMAD strives to inform the public of its work on a regular basis. In the News section you will find our responses to developments in Slovenia and internationally, our comments on key economic indicators and the main messages of our publications. IMAD’s key public events are international conferences, where we present our analyses to domestic and foreign publics. In public events, we express the key messages by presentation slides, which can also be found in the News section. You can subscribe to our e-mail alerts of news updates and new publications by providing your e-mail address.
Current economic trends from 12 to 16 October 2020: electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, road and rail freight transport, labour market and other charts
The available indicators of activity for the beginning of October indicate that electricity consumption and freight traffic on motorways continue to...
Economic Mirror No. 6/2020: Gradual recovery of economic activity in uncertain conditions
The COVID-19 epidemic caused a significant contraction of economic activity in the second quarter in the entire euro area; amid a relatively robust...
Current economic trends from 5 to 9 October 2020: electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, exports and imports of goods and production volume in manufacturing
The available short-term indicators of economic activity indicate that the several-month recovery and rebound to pre-crisis levels slowed in August...
Current economic trends from 28 September to 2 October 2020: electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, trade, consumer prices, yields to maturity of 10-year government bonds
Certain short-term indicators of economic activity continue to fluctuate close or just below comparable last year’s levels. Electricity consumption...
Current economic trends from 21 to 25 September 2020: electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, economic sentiment, real estate, market services, Slovenian industrial producer prices
Economic sentiment improved in September for the fifth consecutive month but remained lower than at the beginning of the year.
Electricity...
Autumn forecast 2020: The decline in GDP as a consequence of sharp contraction of activity in Q2 will be deep this year, but smaller than projected in the summer; next year growth, pace of recovery uncertain and dependent on the epidemiological situation
In the Autumn Forecast, IMAD predicts a 6.7% decline in GDP for this year. The forecasts for Slovenia’s main trading partners for this year have...
Current economic trends from 14 to 18 September 2020: electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, construction, labour market, wages and current account
According to the available data for the middle of September, freight traffic was, as in the last few weeks, around a tenth lower than before the...
Current economic trends from 7 to 11 September 2020: electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, exports and imports of goods and production volume in manufacturing
In July, manufacturing production and trade in goods increased for the third consecutive month, mainly under the impact of the recovery in trading...
Current economic trends from 31 August to 4 September 2020: electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, GDP, active and inactive population and consumer prices
As already indicated by short-term indicators of activity, GDP contracted significantly in the second quarter (by 13% year on year) as a consequence...
Current economic trends from 24 to 28 August 2020: electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, economic sentiment, trade and market services
In August, economic sentiment improved for the fourth consecutive month. Freight traffic on motorways and electricity consumption in the economy...