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Since the year 2002 foreign investors have on average acquired about 200 German firms per year. That is, the number of foreign acquisitions in Germany exceeds the number of German acquisitions abroad by about…

The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dropped slightly by 5.2 points in October. Compared with minus 22.2 points in September, the indicator's current level of minus 27.4 points is now far below…

Specialist journals count the Internet among the most frequently used advertising tools in the economic branch of IT-related service providers. About 47 per cent of the companies in this sector promote their…

The ZEW-IDI, sentiment indicator for the economic sector IT-related service providers, has slightly decreased on the third quarter 2006 by 5.5 points and is now at a level of 64.1 points. Indeed, the business…

Almost 63 per cent of the companies in Baden-Württemberg use computer-based applications to network and automate their business processes (e-business). There are however significant differences between the…

The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dropped by 16.6 points in September. Compared with minus 5.6 points in August, the indicator's current level of minus 22.2 points is now far below its…

Over the past months, public debate has centred around the diverging economic expectations presented in the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the ifo…

The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dropped by 20.7 points in August. Compared with 15.1 points in July, the indicator's current level of -5.6 points is now far below its historical average of…

The vast majority of the experts questioned for the ZEW Energiemarktbarometer (Energy Market Barometer) support the determined measures of the European Commission to liberalise electricity markets. This applies…