In 2004, vehicle construction industry spent 27.7 billion euros on innovation projects and thus outdoes every other sector in Germany. For 2005 and 2006, German vehicle construction also expects rising…
The federal government's plans for the 2008 corporate tax reform cannot meet their own requirements. The tax reform is neither expected to significantly improve the fiscal attractiveness of German locations nor…
The new seminar programme of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, has been published. From September 2006 to June 2007, the research institute offers a series of expert seminars on the…
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…
