Two thirds of Baden-Wuerttemberg companies from the IT and media sector and selected IT applying sectors which use enterprise software, rely on standard products available on the market. A considerable amount,…
The economic expectations of the financial market experts improve for the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Croatia in June. The outlook for the whole region Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) remains…
The latest Financial Market Test Switzerland, carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse, continues to signal a weakening of the economic momentum on a…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dropped significantly in June 2008. The indicator decreased by 11.0 points and now stands at minus 52.4 points after minus 41.4 points in the previous month.…
Despite of the decreasing economic activity and the therefore smaller freight volumes, companies in Germany cannot expect decreasing transport prices within the next six months. On the contrary: except for rail…
Preserving tropical rainforests is not only important for the protection of biodiversity but represents a particularly cost-efficient instrument of climate policy. If the world's rainforests were involved in…
A serious setback can be expected in the German certificate market if a large German or foreign issuer defaults. In this case, more than two thirds of the 205 financial market experts recently surveyed by the…
In 2007, there were more high-tech start-ups in Germany than in the previous years. Despite this upward tendency, the number of start-ups is still below the number reached in 1995. These are the findings of a…
