The banks’ supervisory boards have not fulfilled their control function properly over the last few years and therefore are partly responsible for the crisis on the financial markets.…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany decreased by 3.2 points in January 2010. The indicator now stands at 47.2 points after 50.4 points in the previous month. This…
The term Green IT includes apart from the energy efficient and environmentally friendly production and disposal of information and communication technology (ICT) also the reduction of…
The economic situation among companies in the economic sector service providers of the information society further improves. Companies in this economic sector overall expect a…
The outlooks for stock markets in Germany and the USA are quite poor. A final result of an average of about 6,150 points is expected for the German stock market index DAX in 2010. In…
In the three months before the reduction of the maximum entitlement length of unemployment benefits for older unemployed became effective in February 2006, the number of unemployed…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany decreased slightly by 0.7 points in December 2009. The indicator now stands at 50.4 points after 51.1 points in the previous month.…
The planned child care benefit (Betreuungsgeld) by the German government for mothers, who care for their infants at home, causes windfall gains. This is the finding of a current study…
Tax and finance are by far the most important issue for the new German government. Health care, education, labour market and social issues are slightly less important. These are the…