The catch-up effect visible in freight traffic after the economic and financial crisis continues to decrease in the next six months. The transport volume is still expected to rise, but the intensity varies in…
By entering the third phase of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (2013-2020), some German federal states and some cities or councils will have to pay dearly. As of 2013 a considerable share of…
Firms using customised enterprise software are more innovative than their competitors that are mainly using standardized software. This is the finding of a study conducted by the Centre for European Economic…
The ZEW-Erste Group Bank Economic Sentiment Indicator for Central and Eastern Europe including Turkey (CEE) has slightly increased by 2.2 points to 20.9 points in May 2011. The indicator for the inflation…
Economic expectations for Switzerland deteriorated in May 2011. The relevant ZEW-CS-Indicator dropped by 20.3 points to the minus 11.5 threshold. The ZEW-CS Indicator is calculated monthly by the Centre for…
Immigrants in Germany found considerably fewer firms in key economic sectors, such as engineering, chemical industry or software development, than Germans. Thus, with regard to the so-called knowledge-intensive…
In the business year 2010, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim improved its results by half a million to 15.6 million euros. In particular, third-party funding strongly increased in 2010.…
