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…
According to the assessment of leading financial experts from 18 banks, surveyed by ZEW on a quarterly basis, interest rates in the euro zone will slightly fall during the coming months. No significant changes…
Mergers and acquisitions not only increase concentration in product markets and therefore reduce competition to the detriment of consumers, they also result in a bundling of important technologies of corporate…
For the leading indexes of the German and the U.S. stock markets, Dax and Dow Jones, a rather lower potential for growth can be expected until the end of 2008. At the same time, the Euro will maintain its…
Research and Development both have an important role for increasing productivity, as well as for the innovative capability of an economy. For some time, there has been discussion on how an indirect support…
The economic expectations of the financial market experts who are surveyed by the ZEW, the Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, supported by Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen, Vienna, for…
A recent ZEW study among 2000 entrepreneurs shows that in 2007, research and innovation gained more and more importance. Compared with 2006, research expenditures may raise by 7 per cent. This would be the…
A permanent movement of numerous rail users to road and inland waterway traffic due to the train drivers’ strike in the freight services of Deutsche Bahn is not to be expected. This is the result of a special…
The Financial Market Test Switzerland, carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse, reveals a slight dampening of economic expectations in Switzerland. The…