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For around three quarters of the people in Germany saving for building purposes, the public promotion of savings dedicated to homeownership (the so-called Bausparen) through housing bonuses is a major reason…

Worldwide mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities have decreased in the year 2007. The ZEW-ZEPHYR-M&A-Index finished at 131 points in December 2007. In December 2006 the Index had been at 149 points. This is…

Driven by the good economic situation, German companies have increasingly invested in innovation. In 2006, the innovation expenditures of the German economy saw a strong six per cent growth and amounted to…

Competition for customers has not only increased during the past two years but will also toughen in the future. These are the findings of a recent survey by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),…

The monthly survey among financial experts conducted by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, and supported by Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen, Vienna, recorded slightly lower…

The Financial Market Test Switzerland, carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with the Credit Suisse, revealed somewhat diminishing economic expectations in Switzerland…

Nearly 40 per cent of the companies in the economic sector service providers of the information society, which is characterised by a high ICT intensity and makes up around 8 per cent of the overall German gross…

The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany decreased in January 2008 once again and now stands at minus 41.6 points after minus 37.2 points in the previous month. This is still well below its…

The German service providers of the information society are split over their business expectations for the first quarter 2008. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) service providers, comprising…