Energy experts expect rising prices for natural gas, coal, electricity and crude oil over the next six months. The vast majority of them estimate that even in the long term (over the coming five years), the…
Young German high-tech start-ups quickly take the risk of entering international markets. Within the first years after their foundation, 31 per cent of the start-ups alreadygenerate profits abroad. Start-ups…
The Summer Olympics in Beijing bring China into the focus of worldwide publicity. However, the Olympic Games will have few longterm effects on the Chinese economy. Direct impulses on Chinese stock markets by…
To keep the number of start-ups in Germany on a high level in 2050, the percentage of women venturing into independence has to increase by six percentage points and the number of university graduates by ten…
Worldwide mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities remain sluggish in the second quarter of 2008. The ZEW-ZEPHYR-M&A-Index finished at only 117 points in June 2008. In December 2007, the Index was standing at…
It is to be expected that within the next months, costs in the Information Technologies (IT) will decrease. These are the findings of a survey among 200 IT experts conducted by the Centre for European Economic…
The downward trend of the sentiment indicator for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which is calculated monthly by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, supported by the Erste Bank der…
The Financial Market Test Switzerland, carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse, continues to deteriorate noticeably in July. The balance of the ZEW-CS…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dropped significantly in July 2008. The indicator decreased by 11.5 points and now stands at minus 63.9 points after minus 52.4 points in the previous month.…
