The Financial Market Test Switzerland, carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse, revealed in January that the economic outlook improved somewhat on a…
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is a common practice used by a total of 42 percent of companies in Baden-Württemberg working in the IT and media sectors or IT user industries. This means, they partly or…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany increased in January 2009 once again. The indicator rose by 14.2 points and now stands at minus 31.0 points after minus 45.2 points in the previous month.…
One-third of German-based Service Providers of the Information Society – an economic sector that includes ICT service providers as well as knowledge-intensive service providers – export their services abroad. …
In the fourth quarter 2008 the economic situation for businesses in the sector service providers of the information society slightly recovered. The ZEW-IDI, a sentiment indicator for this sector, rises by 1.8…
The dispute between Russia, a gas producer, and the Ukraine, a transit country for gas delivery, has had consequences in particular for Eastern European EU member states, and has shifted energy security to the…
Germany needs tax incentives for research and development (R&D) that provide non-bureaucratic R&D support without preference for certain technologies – this is the finding of a working group on R&D tax…
Wolfgang Franz, president of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and professor at the University of Mannheim, turns sixty-five on the 7th January 2009. He is known to the public as one of the five…
The economic development of many eurozone countries has been levelling up in the last few years. In particular large economies like Germany, France and Italy are increasingly in lockstep with the eurozone.
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