[ D] The economic sentiment indicator for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE region) increases in March by 16.8 points to 37.3 points. The CEE indicator is conducted monthly by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, with the support from the Erste Group Bank, Vienna. It reflects the assessment of the economic development for the CEE region on a six months time horizon. read more
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany moved sidewards in March 2010. The indicator now stands at 44.5 points after 45.1 points in the previous month. This value is well above the indicator's historical average of 27.2 points. read more
The ZEW-CS-Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Switzerland brightens up by 1.3 points to the 53.8 mark in March. This reveals the current Financial Market Test Switzerland, carried out monthly by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse (CS). read more
The unemployment benefits by the government enjoy a high level of approval by the German population. A high percentage of unemployed immigrants does not change this fact. An increase in the percentage of unemployed immigrants by one percentage point lowers the approval of unemployment benefits by the government by only 0.014 points on a scale from zero to five. This is the finding of a study conducted by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim. The study analyses the relation between the regional percentage of unemployed immigrants and the general approval of German citizens towards unemployment benefits by the government. read more
In October 11/12, 2010, the first interdisciplinary conference of the Leibniz Network on Real Estate Markets and Capital Markets (ReCapNet) will take place at the ZEW in Mannheim, Germany. This conference is open to all researchers who are interested in the relationship between real estate markets and capital markets. We welcome contributions in finance and economics, as well as in economic and urban geography, regional science, urban development planning, demography, and law.
The deadline for submission of extended abstracts or full papers is July 31, 2010: conference@recapnet.org Further Information and Call for Papers
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the University of Mannheim are jointly organising the second conference on "Recent Developments in Macroeconomics" on June 24 and 25, 2010 in Mannheim, Germany.
The conference programme will include keynote addresses as well as presentations of contributed papers. In particular, we encourage the submission of papers that deal with the impact of the financial crisis on the real economy. An additional focus will be on economic integration, fiscal policy, macroeconometrics, labour markets and macroeconomic aspects of climate change. Submissions of papers in other areas are encouraged as well.
We invite the submission of theoretical as well as empirical work. Contributions must be submitted electronically as a PDF file until April 15, 2010 to: macro-conference@zew.de, the decision on acceptance will be reached no further than May 1, 2010. read more
The ZEW Centre for European Economic Research, the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) and WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar are pleased to announce their conference "Quantitative Analysis in Competition Assessments" on October 21 and 22, 2010 in Mannheim, Germany. The Conference aims at stimulating discussion between academic researchers and practitioners in the various competition authorities, legal counsel and economic consultancy firms regarding the use of quantitative techniques in the context of competition analysis. Theoretical, empirical as well as case study-oriented articles are welcome. We especially welcome any contributions that illustrate the application of industrial economics, game theory and econometrics to applied competition analysis of antitrust cases and that combine both the development of a theoretical model and its empirical estimation. Papers with empirical advances in the field of the ex-post evaluation of competition policy are also welcome.
All papers or abstracts should be submitted electronically to the organising committee via the e-mail address compquant2010@zew.de as doc or pdf files (preferably pdf) no later than 30 June 2010. Proposals must be in English. read more
