The global financial crisis has slowed world-wide M&A activity in the banking sector. In Germany, the volume of transactions will regress as well. "The economic downturn and the strong competition could lead to…
High loyalty bonuses for longstanding employees of German companies are a considerable obstacle to employment for more mature job-seekers. Representative studies conducted by the Centre for European Economic…
The Centre for European Economic Studies (ZEW) in cooporation with the KfW Bankengruppe (KfW banking group) and the Business Information Service Creditreform presented a new panel of business start-ups. Up to…
The education summit in Berlin is an important signal to no longer accept the growing inequality of chances in education and on the labour market. "It must be discussed what investments in the educational…
Sovereign wealth funds from the Middle East and Asia are increasingly buying stakes of European and U.S. companies. Due to the global financial market crisis the shares are available at low prices. Therefore…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dropped in October 2008 by 21.9 points. The indicator now stands at minus 63.0 points after minus 41.1 points in the previous month. This is still well below…
Within the sector service providers of the information society comprising both ICT service providers and knowledge-intensive service providers, about 24 per cent of the firms state not being able to fill job…
The ZEW-IDI, a sentiment indicator for the whole sector service providers of the information society comprising both the ICT service providers and knowledge-intensive service providers, fell to 52.3 points in…
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which are maintaining research and development (R&D)activities abroad clearly show an higher employment increase than SMEs restricting R&D to Germany. Thus, SMEs doing…