Latest Press Releases

  1. Research // 13.09.2004

    ZEW/ProgTrans Survey on Transport Markets – Truck Toll, Rising Fuel Costs and EU Eastward Enlargement Cause Uncertainty

    In the third quarter of 2004, uncertainty prevails on German and cross-border transport markets. This is due to the sharp increase in fuel prices, the imminent second attempt at introducing a truck toll in…
  2. Research // 02.09.2004

    ZEW-Energy Market Barometer - Experts Expect Emissions Price Below Ten Euro

    Not many enterprises will have to bear a great burden from the European emissions trading system. More than 80 percent of the participants of an expert survey conducted by the Centre for European Economic…
  3. Research // 19.08.2004

    Developing Countries – Growth Bonds for Escaping the Debt Trap?

    High hopes rest on a new tool that could possibly prevent developing countries from falling into the debt trap: so-called growth bonds. In the course of its current debt restructuring negotiations, Argentina…
  4. Research // 17.08.2004

    ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment August 2004 - Declining Expectations

    The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany decreases in August by 3.1 points. The indicator now stands at +45.3 points, compared with +48.4 points in July. In spite of the decline, experts expect a…
  5. Research // 29.07.2004

    Investing in Hedge Funds - Private Investors Still Hesitate

    The beginning of the year brought a new investment option for profit-seeking investors in Germany: hedge funds. However, private investors still seem to be wary of these alternative investment products, which,…
  6. Research // 22.07.2004

    Service Providers of the Information Industry - E-Commerce has Accelerating and Cost-cutting Effect on Business Processes

    In the second quarter of 2004, companies using the Internet as a sales channel for serving end customers (business-to-consumer e-commerce, B2C) accounted for almost 40 per cent of the total revenues in the…
  7. Research // 21.07.2004

    Business Activity Picks up in German IT-Related Services Sector

    The value of the ZEW-IDI, sentiment indicator for the German IT-related service providers, is 62.6 points in the second quarter of 2004. This value clearly exceeds the value of 55.4 points of the first quarter.…
  8. Personnel // 21.07.2004

    Change in the Directorship of Business and Administration at ZEW

    At today's festive event, the Mannheim Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) will bid farewell to Ernst-O. Schulze, its Director of Business and Administration, who had accompanied the research institute…
  9. Research // 20.07.2004

    ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment July 2004 - Stabilization Raises Hopes

    The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany increased slightly in July. The indicator now stands at +48.4 points, compared with +47.4 points in June.