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…
Germany and other industrialised countries can reduce the economic costs of climate protection considerably by means of emission-saving investment projects. Recent model simulations by the Centre for European…
The world economy is currently experiencing a phase of rapid change, also in the field of the development, production and exchange of technological goods. Asiatic countries such as India, South Korea, Taiwan,…
According to the assessment of leading financial experts from 18 banks, surveyed by ZEW on a quarterly basis, interest rates in the euro zone will continue rising during the coming months. No significant…
