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Worldwide M&A activities have decreased considerably in the first quarter of 2009. The ZEW-ZEPHYR M&A-Index fell from 139 points in December 2008 to 108 points in March 2009. Thus, the index stands considerably…

The economic outlook for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) keeps on recovering in April 2009. The CEE sentiment indicator, reflecting the surveyed analysts’ economic expectations on a six month time horizon…

The Financial Market Test Switzerland, carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse, reflects in April a less pessimistic assessment of the economic outlook…

The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany continued to improve in April 2009. It rose by 16.5 points and now stands at 13.0 points after minus 3.5 points in the previous month. For the first time…

Around 39 percent of the companies in the sector service providers of the information society use at least one social software application in their business workflow. In this context, applications such as…

The ZEW-IDI, a sentiment indicator for the whole sector service providers of the information society, falls by 14.2 points to 39.9 points in the first quarter 2009. Therefore the indicator lies below the…

Despite the recessive macro-economic situation and increasingly difficult conditions on national and international research markets, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim can look back on…

More than 75 per cent of the companies in Baden-Württemberg working in the IT and media sector or selected ICT (Information and Communication Technology) user industries know social software applications. From…

Direct investments in financial institutions by the Federal State and the establishment of a "bad bank light" is the most suitable way of reorganising German banks which were financially damaged by the economic…