Within a professional training programme at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, 19 employees at the Chinese Ministry of Finance and other state institutions…
Web 2.0 applications like facebook and twitter have established themselves as information and communication media in our private domain. Today the use of Web 2.0 in business, labelled…
The economic and financial crisis has lead to heavy losses in the worldwide mergers and acquisitions (M&A). However, this development did not stop the buying mood of Chinese firms. In…
For the five largest office real estate markets in Germany, namely Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Munich, decreasing returns are expected until the end of 2011. The top…
Basel III better protects banks from future crises. That is the opinion of the majority of 214 financial market experts surveyed by ZEW on the proposed new international rules on bank…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany has dropped slightly by 2.9 points in October 2010. The indicator now stands at minus 7.2 points after minus 4.3 points in the…
Mobile devices like smartphones or tablet PCs are being used in many firms today. These devices make it possible for the mobile users to access the internet and internet-based…
In the third quarter 2010, the sentiment in the economic sector of service providers of the information society consisting of ICT service providers and knowledge intensive service…
The percentage of older staff members in the total number of employees in German companies has been continually increasing for the last few years. To avoid losses in productivity,…