More than 60 per cent of new high-tech start-ups in Germany and Great Britain are active in the international arena already in their initial years of business. This is the result of a survey including 600…
For the second time in a row the economic situation has failed to improve for business-related service providers. Already since the third quarter of 1998, the business situation has remained at stalemate in the…
The draft legislation for the corporate tax reform for 1999, 2000 and 2002 is on the table. However, the measures already to be implemented in 1999 fall short of expectations. They are unlikely to provoke any…
Since the oil price is lower than it has been in a long time, many a company comes up with the idea to secure a favourable purchase price for oil for themselves on the long run by buying forward. However, there…
In the context of the coalition talks between the Social Democratic Party of Germany and Alliance‘90/The Greens, the implementation of an ecological tax reform was agreed upon. Concrete information concerning…
Despite remarkable progress in terms of adjustment, the productivity of the East German industry is still below the West German level. However, the individual East German businesses differ considerably from one…
The economic situation in the business-related services sector has remained at a constant high level in the third quarter of 1998. Merely the expectations concerning the earnings situation has improved once…
One of the most serious problems of current economic policy is the high unemployment rate. Yet, whereas in the manufacturing industry jobs are continuously being phased out, the service sector is regarded as…
The profit margin of German exporters remains largely unaffected by exchange rate fluctuations. In the case of a real appreciation of the DM, an average of 20 per cent of the appreciation - on the basis of 65…
