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In the coming six months, the demand for services of the German transport and loading industry will keep up its positive development owing to the favourable economic situation. Thus, partially appearing…

Over the past months, public debate has centred around the diverging economic expectations presented in the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the ifo…

The Financial Market Test Switzerland carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse (CS) in August confirms the overall positive sentiment that has prevailed…

The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dropped by 20.7 points in August. Compared with 15.1 points in July, the indicator's current level of -5.6 points is now far below its historical average of…

The vast majority of the experts questioned for the ZEW Energiemarktbarometer (Energy Market Barometer) support the determined measures of the European Commission to liberalise electricity markets. This applies…

In 2004, vehicle construction industry spent 27.7 billion euros on innovation projects and thus outdoes every other sector in Germany. For 2005 and 2006, German vehicle construction also expects rising…

The federal government's plans for the 2008 corporate tax reform cannot meet their own requirements. The tax reform is neither expected to significantly improve the fiscal attractiveness of German locations nor…

The new seminar programme of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, has been published. From September 2006 to June 2007, the research institute offers a series of expert seminars on the…

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) continuously carrying out research and development (R&D) benefit significantly more from innovations than companies without an own R&D activity. This gap becomes…