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Prof. Dr. Andreas Löschel will monitor the change in Germany’s energy policy and critically analyse its development. As head of the research department “Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental…

In the summer of 2011, the outlook for the global economy clearly deteriorated. Especially the sovereign debt crisis is threatened to turn into a bank crisis among Europe. This is increasingly affecting the…

Prime rents at the five largest German office real estate markets Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Munich will considerably increase by two to five per cent in 2011 and 2012. At the same time, the…

The ZEW-Erste Group Bank Economic Sentiment Indicator for Central and Eastern Europe including Turkey (CEE) has declined by 11.6 points in September 2011 for the fourth consecutive month. The indicator now…

Economic expectations for Switzerland decreased in September 2011. The relevant ZEW-CS Indicator dropped by 4.3 points to the minus 75.7 threshold. The ZEW-CS Indicator is calculated monthly by the Centre for…

The growth of the transport volume both in Germany and for international traffic will significantly decrease in the next six months. The slowdown of the economic upswing is now being felt in the transport…

The new seminar programme of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim has recently been published. From September 2011 until June 2012, ZEW offers numerous expert seminars on current issues…