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21.11.2000 - ZEW (bsa/kvs)
ZEW-Financial Market Tests: Financial Experts Recommend European Shares
Next year investors should buy primarily European shares: In a model portfolio with shares from Europe, North America, Japan, and the Emerging Markets European values should account for 50 percent of the volume. Investors should invest 28 percent of their portfolio volume in US shares, twelve percent in Japanese securities, and 10 percent in shares of the Emerging Markets.
04.10.2000 - ZEW (elu)
Staff Options Impair the Informative Value of Net Income
In accordance with the US-American Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US-GAAP), employers are not required to state personnel expenditure in full in the balance sheet when remunerating employees with share options. This signifies that the reported net income for the year is higher than is actually the case.
14.09.2000 - ZEW (fhe)
ZEW Conference: EU Enlargement towards the East and Financial Markets
A premature expansion of the EU towards the East entails economic risks. Particularly the accession of Eastern European states to the Euro Zone should not be done precipitately. This was the prevailing opinion at a conference on "EU Enlargement towards the East and Financial Markets" at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim.
28.06.2000 - ZEW (nja/kvs)
Innovations in Manufacturing Industry: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Give away Chances of Success
Even though small and medium-sized enterprises with less than 500 employees (SMEs) represent the lion's share of companies in manufacturing industry that invests in new and improved products and production processes, their innovation success clearly falls behind that of large enterprises.
28.06.2000 - ZEW (nja/kvs)
Innovations in Manufacturing Industry: East German Enterprises have Largely Caught up
Innovation activities of enterprises in manufacturing industry and mining in the New Länder hardly differ from those of enterprises in the old Länder. Any differences can be mainly attributed to the varying structure of company sizes.
20.06.2000 - ZEW (tha/ggr)
Labour Market Policy: State Spends Billions - yet Little Success
Traditional instruments of active labour market policy such as job creation and further education schemes for the jobless that are promoted by the employment offices in order to reintegrate the participants in an employment relationship in the first labour market, are to a large extent ineffective.