The danger that a collapse of a bank will trigger further breakdowns is not confined to single states anymore. Rather increasing integration of financial markets has created transborder systemic risk in the EU.…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany declines in May. With +66.3 points the index now stands -4.3 points below the value of the previous month (+70.6 points).
Introducing a tax on foreign exchange transactions has no positive effect on the currency fluctuations which are associated with flexible exchange rates.
Is the growth rate in the United States in reality not much higher than the German growth rate? Is it possible that the German inflation rate is at a lower level than official statistics indicate?
Service providers in the information industry place great value on training in new IT professions, such as IT specialists or IT-system electronics technicians. In total, around 40% of all turnover in this…
In the first quarter of 2002, the annual growth rate in turnover of IT-related service providers grew by 3.5 per cent. Businesses also expect to see a positive development in returns and turnover in the second…
Providing further training is worthwhile, increasing a company's productivity. Company productivity rises by on average 0.3 per cent when the number of employees participating in furthering training programmes…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment has slightly declined by -0.6 points in April. The index now stands at +70.6 points after standing at +71.2 in the previous month.
The bankruptcy of the US energy giant Enron shook global financial financial markets. According to the findings of a survey conducted by the Mannheim Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), at least three…