Mergers and acquisitions not only increase concentration in product markets and therefore reduce competition to the detriment of consumers, they also result in a bundling of important technologies of corporate…
For the leading indexes of the German and the U.S. stock markets, Dax and Dow Jones, a rather lower potential for growth can be expected until the end of 2008. At the same time, the Euro will maintain its…
On the whole, 58 per cent of German companies partially or entirely outsource business processes such as, for instance, human resources or accounting to external service providers. First in line are retail…
Nowadays, about 64 per cent of the companies in Germany entirely or partly subcontract IT services such as the installation of hardware and software as well as programming services to external providers.…
The wave of acquisitions in the German energy industry has subsided. Current examinations by Dr. Patrick Beschorner and Martina Lauk of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim suggest that…
Nearly all companies in Germany (98 per cent) have internet access by now. Meanwhile the smaller companies that hesitated before setting up an internet connection three years ago have caught up.
The vast majority of the experts interviewed in the course of the ZEW Energiemarktbarometer (Energy Market Barometer) estimate that in the long term (over the coming five years) industry customers will have to…
According to a current survey of the ZEW-Financial Market Survey, financial market experts have increased their assessment of risk for the worldwide financial system. The Centre for European Economic Research…
The vast majority of above 90 per cent of the 297 financial market experts who were interviewed in the context of the ZEW Financial Market Survey, think that the consideration of environmental and social…
