The integration subsidies provided by the Federal Employment Agency enable only few elderly unemployed to find work more rapidly. Even though statistics have proven a positive impact on women in eastern…
The financial market experts interviewed by ZEW expect the German share index (DAX) to increase by 5 per cent in the coming year. The potential of the US-American index Dow Jones is to lie at merely 2.5 per…
Acquiring the "Abitur", the German school leaving certificate equivalent to British A Levels, pays off. This is particularly true for students from households in which parents are less well-educated. In their…
The seventh issue of the ZEW Stock Option Watch deals with the costs of stock option programmes and their balance sheet presentation. The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim publishes the…
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…
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…