Economic expectations for Central and Eastern Europe including Turkey (CEE) have improved considerably in October. The ZEW-Erste Group Bank Economic Sentiment Indicator has increased by 20.1 points to a level…
This year's Heinz König Young Scholar Award goes to Jitao Tang,
Teaching Assistant at Rutgers University. Jitao Tang is already the ninth laureate of the award endowed by the Centre for European Economic…
Economic expectations for Switzerland have improved by 6.0 points to the minus-28.9-points mark in October 2012. Thus, the ZEW-CS Indicator of Economic Sentiment has increased by a total of 14.5 points since…
The euro crisis is putting a strain on the German economy. Economic growth will thus remain weak in the near future and will not improve until next year. The institutes forecast an increase of GDP by 0.8 per…
Nowadays, thousands of patents are protecting innovative products like the smartphone. Such growing patent thickets increasingly hinder the innovation process of national economies. For many firms, the patent…
Holger Bonin, head of research department at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), accepts a professorship for economics at the University of Kassel starting on October 1, 2012. The professorship…
Germany’s top office markets still register a slight upswing in 2012. For 2013, however, stagnation is expected. Vacancies, top rents and high yields will remain nearly constant. These are the findings of the…
In the context of the current economic crisis, Germany is often accused of generating a high current account surplus at the expense of other EU states. To reduce surplus growth, Germany is thus asked to…
