Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) continuously carrying out research and development (R&D) benefit significantly more from innovations than companies without an own R&D activity. This gap becomes…
Particularly owing to their comparably low transaction costs and great flexibility, exchange traded funds (ETFs) have the potential to further increase their fast-growing market share on the German fund market…
Energy experts expect electricity, natural gas and crude oil to become significantly more expensive in the coming five years. Coal prices, on the other hand, will increase less over this period of time. On a…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dropped by 22.7 points in July. Compared with 37.8 points in June, the indicator's current level of 15.1 points is now far below its historical average of…
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), in cooperation with Credit Suisse (CS), has for the second time carried out the Financial Market Test Switzerland. The results continue to show the optimistic…
Business relations with foreign countries are of great importance to service providers of the information society. In the second quarter of 2006, about two thirds of the companies in this economic sector stated…
Following a positive start to the year, IT-related service providers are optimistic about the second half of 2006. In the second quarter of 2006, the ZEW-IDI, the sentiment indicator for the economic sector…
By now, the restructuring of the statutory health insurance (SHI) has gradually taken shape as reportedly planned by the federal government. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Franz, president of the Centre for…
Over the past year, the number of newly founded firms in the German high-tech sector has decreased. Compared to the previous year, it fell 16 per cent and thus reached a new low point. These are the major…
