Worldwide mergers and acquisitions activities have further decreased in the third quarter of 2007. The ZEW-ZEPHYR M&A Index regressed by 17 points and stands at 120 points in September 2007. In August 2007 the…
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…
In October, the results of the survey among financial market experts conducted by the ZEW, the Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, supported by Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen, Vienna,…
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 latest survey carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse reveals that the assessment of the current economic situation in Switzerland has brightened up.…
About half of the companies in the economic sector service providers of the information society export their services to other countries. The main motive for these export activities is the realisation of…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany remained unchanged in October 2007 and stands like in the previous month at minus 18.1 points. This is still well below its historical average of 32.1 points.…
The business situation of the IT-related service providers has deteriorated in the third quarter 2007. The ZEW-IDI, sentiment indicator for the economic sector IT-related service providers, calculated on the…
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…