In separate niche markets and regarding certain technologies, companies of the German ICT economy (manufacturers and providers of information and communications products and services) take the international…
Why does Europe fail to produce and advance new companies of world standing such as Amazon, Google and Ebay? An international research team of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and the…
A massive share price fall as recently observed at the Shanghai stock market raises the question of whether central banks are able to counteract asset price bubbles on the markets taking the according steps in…
In 2005, German companies spend 106.8 billion euros in innovation. One year later, this amount increased to 108.1 billion euros. Similar innovation expenditure is expected for 2007.
Energy experts consider the increased environmental charges (such as taxes or feed-in tariffs for renewable energy) as well as the high market concentration in the power generating sector to be the main reasons…
Companies with works councils pay significantly higher wages than those without it. A comparison of companies with similar features regarding the economic sector, company size, etc. suggests that enterprises…
More than 31 per cent of the companies from the IT and media sector as well as from branches using IT and media technology (user branches) evaluate their current business situation as good. Another 53 per cent…
The first quarter of the new year is not expected to bring about any strong price movements on the German and European stock markets. Leading financial market analysts of German banks interviewed in the course…