ZEW Study: Governmental incentives for the funding of R&D projects are often more successful than expected. Linking governmental subsidies to the cooperativeness of the subsidised companies has a positive…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany decreased by 6.9 points in September. The indicator now stands at 38.4 points. Although this value represents a further decline compared to +45.3 points in…
In the third quarter of 2004, uncertainty prevails on German and cross-border transport markets. This is due to the sharp increase in fuel prices, the imminent second attempt at introducing a truck toll in…
Not many enterprises will have to bear a great burden from the European emissions trading system. More than 80 percent of the participants of an expert survey conducted by the Centre for European Economic…
High hopes rest on a new tool that could possibly prevent developing countries from falling into the debt trap: so-called growth bonds. In the course of its current debt restructuring negotiations, Argentina…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany decreases in August by 3.1 points. The indicator now stands at +45.3 points, compared with +48.4 points in July. In spite of the decline, experts expect a…
The beginning of the year brought a new investment option for profit-seeking investors in Germany: hedge funds. However, private investors still seem to be wary of these alternative investment products, which,…
In the second quarter of 2004, companies using the Internet as a sales channel for serving end customers (business-to-consumer e-commerce, B2C) accounted for almost 40 per cent of the total revenues in the…
The value of the ZEW-IDI, sentiment indicator for the German IT-related service providers, is 62.6 points in the second quarter of 2004. This value clearly exceeds the value of 55.4 points of the first quarter.…