News

  1. Guests at ZEW // 19.12.2011

    Japanese Visiting Researchers at ZEW

    From December 12-15, 2011, a group of researchers from Sophia University and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Tokyo, Japan) were visiting the ZEW research department…
  2. Questions & Answers // 16.12.2011

    Rating Agency Reform - "EU Recommendations for the Regulation of Rating Agencies Will Help Solve Key Problems"

    Rating agencies are considered to be partially responsible for the financial crisis, as they awarded excessively positive ratings to highly speculative securities for too long. More recently, rating agencies…
  3. Opinion // 13.12.2011

    Mortal Sins

    It is much more popular to decry the sins of the embattled countries on the eurozone's periphery than to praise their efforts to return to the narrow path of fiscal virtue. Yet these efforts have been…
  4. Personnel // 28.11.2011

    ZEW Researcher Receives Constantin-von-Dieze Award

    Dr. Susanne Steffes received the Constantin-von-Dietze Award from the University of Freiburg for her doctoral thesis "Employment Dynamics and Heterogeneous Labor Markets: An Analysis with Linked…
  5. Dates and News // 24.11.2011

    Alicia Robb, PhD, Visiting Researcher at ZEW

    From December 7-9, 2011, Alicia Robb, PhD, is a visiting researcher in the ZEW Research Department "Industrial Economics and International Management". She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation…
  6. Strengthening Macroeconomic Policies... // 23.11.2011

    Participants from China and Vietnam Completed the Qualification Programme "Strengthening Macroeconomic Policies" (MPS+) at ZEW

    In mid-November, 23 participants completed successfully the Qualification Programme "Strengthening Macroeconomic Policies" (MPS+) at ZEW in Mannheim. Commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale…
  7. Research // 21.11.2011

    ZEW Studies on the Effects of Minimum Wages in the Roofing Sector and the Waste Industry in Germany

    At the end of 2010, the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) commissioned studies on the effects of minimum wages on employment, protection of employees and competition in all sectors…
  8. SEEK // 18.11.2011

    International SEEK Workshop on "Entry, Pricing, and Consumer Search in Online Markets" at ZEW

    Within the framework of the research programme "Strengthening Efficiency and Competitiveness in the European Knowledge Economies", the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim (Germany), and the…