Unternehmen, die in Deutschland Leistungen der Transportwirtschaft und der verladenden Wirtschaft nachfragen, müssen sich auf weitere, zum Teil erhebliche, Preiserhöhungen im nächsten halben Jahr einstellen.…
The Internet presence of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) received the 2006 BIENE Award ("Barrierefreies Internet eröffnet neue Einsichten") for barrier-free Internet access, awarded by Aktion…
The Total Expense Ratio (TER) for investments funds, measured as the total costs of a fund as a percentage of the average fund volume during a business year, has increased in a number of European countries in…
In the survey carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse (CS) in November, the assessment of the financial market experts regarding the current situation of…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dropped slightly by 1.1 points in November. Compared with minus 27.4 points in October, the indicator's current level of minus 28.5 points is still far below…
The draft of the 2008 corporate tax reform produced by the working group “Reform der Unternehmenssteuer in Deutschland” (Reform of the German Corporate Tax) headed by Roland Koch (CDU) and Peer Steinbrück (SPD)…
Restricting the tax deductibility of interest expenses will result in a markedly lower degree of indebtedness of multinational corporations, thus raising taxable profits. At the same time, however, companies’…
In providing a framework for the exchange of emissions rights among firms, the EU emissions trading scheme introduced in 2005 carries great significance with respect to the climate protection goals of the Kyoto…
A further significant increase of DAX and DJ Stoxx 50 is apparently not to be expected until the end of the year. Analysts of German banks, questioned on a quarterly basis by the Centre for European Economic…