In summer 2008, nearly 24 per cent of the firms in Baden-Württemberg assess their business situation as positive. With 23 per cent a nearly equal part currently finds itself within a negative business…
Energy experts expect rising prices for natural gas, coal, electricity and crude oil over the next six months. The vast majority of them estimate that even in the long term (over the coming five years), the…
The Summer Olympics in Beijing bring China into the focus of worldwide publicity. However, the Olympic Games will have few longterm effects on the Chinese economy. Direct impulses on Chinese stock markets by…
To keep the number of start-ups in Germany on a high level in 2050, the percentage of women venturing into independence has to increase by six percentage points and the number of university graduates by ten…
It is to be expected that within the next months, costs in the Information Technologies (IT) will decrease. These are the findings of a survey among 200 IT experts conducted by the Centre for European Economic…
Foreign banks have been able to extend their market share in Germany over the past years, especially due to the favourable terms they offer. But, their low reputation is a disadvantage on the German market.…
Two thirds of Baden-Wuerttemberg companies from the IT and media sector and selected IT applying sectors which use enterprise software, rely on standard products available on the market. A considerable amount,…
Preserving tropical rainforests is not only important for the protection of biodiversity but represents a particularly cost-efficient instrument of climate policy. If the world's rainforests were involved in…
A serious setback can be expected in the German certificate market if a large German or foreign issuer defaults. In this case, more than two thirds of the 205 financial market experts recently surveyed by the…
