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i12 services recession and recovery(?)<br />

Service industries have grown faster and have been<br />

exposed to fewer cyclical fluctuations than total industry<br />

since 1996. Inspection of quarterly data on value added<br />

in constant prices over the period confirms that the<br />

service sector generally shows higher growth rates and<br />

less volatility than total industry. 17 Due to limited data<br />

availability, the latest crisis can only be compared to the<br />

recession at the turn of the millennium. Developments in<br />

FIgURE I.8: growth in <strong>EU</strong> services industries 1996-2011 (%)<br />

10<br />

5<br />

0<br />

-5<br />

-10<br />

-15<br />

-20<br />

1996<br />

1996Q4<br />

1997Q3<br />

1998Q2<br />

1999<br />

17 Since there is no data on production in constant prices, value<br />

added is used to calculate growth rates for services.<br />

1999Q4<br />

2000Q3<br />

2001Q2<br />

2001Q2<br />

Chapter I — The aftermath of the crisis — a long and uneven recovery(?)<br />

2002<br />

2002Q4<br />

both recessions, however, show that the fall in production<br />

for total industry was significantly larger than for services. 18<br />

In fact, negative growth rates for the service industries did<br />

not appear before the latest recession. Data availability<br />

only allows for comparison of large aggregates of services<br />

industries. Fluctuations for trade, hotels and restaurants are<br />

relatively larger than for the other aggregates of service<br />

industries. Non‑market services show considerably less<br />

volatility, cf. Figure I.8.<br />

Non-market services<br />

Financial intermediation and business services<br />

Trade, hotels and restaurants<br />

Total industry (excluding construction)<br />

Note: Growth rates in <strong>EU</strong> services industries and total industry value added in constant prices relative to the same quarter of the previous<br />

year in 1996:1‑2011:1 (%).<br />

Source: own calculations using Eurostat data.<br />

Below, two groups of market services are compared to GDP.<br />

The relatively large sensitivity to fluctuations for the group<br />

‘trade, hotels and restaurants is obvious and fluctuations in<br />

production for these service industries are larger than for<br />

GDP as a whole. Also the growth in value added for this<br />

group of service industries exceeds that of GDP for the<br />

period 1996‑2009.<br />

2003Q3<br />

2004Q2<br />

2005<br />

2005Q4<br />

2006Q3<br />

2007Q2<br />

Growth rates for ‘Financial intermediation and business<br />

services’ are higher and fluctuate less than growth rates for<br />

‘trade, hotels and restaurants. The fall in production was<br />

also less than half of that for GDP. The figure indicates that<br />

developments in the sector lag behind that of GDP. The<br />

decline begins later, the trough appears later and finally the<br />

recovery begins a quarter later than the recovery of GDP,<br />

cf. Figure I.9.<br />

18 Total industry consists of mining and quarrying, manufacturing<br />

and industries producing electricity, gas and water.<br />

2008<br />

2008Q4<br />

2009Q3<br />

2010Q2<br />

2011<br />

23

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