The Summer Olympics in Beijing bring China into the focus of worldwide publicity. However, the Olympic Games will have few longterm effects on the Chinese economy. Direct impulses on Chinese stock markets by…
To keep the number of start-ups in Germany on a high level in 2050, the percentage of women venturing into independence has to increase by six percentage points and the number of university graduates by ten…
Worldwide mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities remain sluggish in the second quarter of 2008. The ZEW-ZEPHYR-M&A-Index finished at only 117 points in June 2008. In December 2007, the Index was standing at…
It is to be expected that within the next months, costs in the Information Technologies (IT) will decrease. These are the findings of a survey among 200 IT experts conducted by the Centre for European Economic…
The downward trend of the sentiment indicator for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which is calculated monthly by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, supported by the Erste Bank der…
The Financial Market Test Switzerland, carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse, continues to deteriorate noticeably in July. The balance of the ZEW-CS…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dropped significantly in July 2008. The indicator decreased by 11.5 points and now stands at minus 63.9 points after minus 52.4 points in the previous month.…
IT-related service providers consisting of knowledge-intensive and ITC service providers have been very innovative during the past twelve months. About 39 per cent of the companies have expanded their services…
In Germany the business situation of knowledge-intensive service providers, which include enterprises of the branches tax consultancy and accounting, management consultancy, architecture, technical consultancy…
