In Baden Württemberg, more than 41 per cent of the companies in the IT and media sector and selected user branches of information and media technologies partially or entirely outsource IT services to external…
The innovation expenditures of the German economy in the year 2004 have risen by two percent to 100 billion Euros. For 2005 and 2006 the firms plan further increases to their budgets of one (2005), respectively…
Germany is once again discussing the implementation of statutory minimum wages. According to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Franz, President of the Mannheim Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), their…
Politicians tend to favour the model of so-called 'national champions' to ensure the international competitiveness of German enterprises. With regard to the energy sector, this should be seen in the light of…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dropped slightly by -1.2 points in February. Compared with +71.0 points in January, the indicator's current level of 69.8 points is far above its historical…
Expert's report by the German Council of Economic Experts, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
Multiple concerns have recently been raised about how the European Union's energy supply is subject to the political mood in Russia due to import dependency. According to most experts interviewed for the ZEW…
Energy experts assume that natural gas will become considerably more expensive over the next six months, whereas coal and crude oil prices are expected to remain largely unchanged in this period of time. The…
Dagmar Wöhrl, MP, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology, was appointed member of the supervisory board at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in…
