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Why does Europe fail to produce and advance new companies of world standing such as Amazon, Google and Ebay? An international research team of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and the…

Dr. h.c. Eggert Voscherau, Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board at BASF AG, was appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim.

A massive share price fall as recently observed at the Shanghai stock market raises the question of whether central banks are able to counteract asset price bubbles on the markets taking the according steps in…

Annual report on cyclical and structural issues relating to small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany

In 2005, German companies spend 106.8 billion euros in innovation. One year later, this amount increased to 108.1 billion euros. Similar innovation expenditure is expected for 2007.

On 21 February 2007, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Strube left the Advisory Board of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, after many years of work.

In the survey carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse, the surveyed financial market experts continue to regard the current situation of the Swiss…

Energy experts consider the increased environmental charges (such as taxes or feed-in tariffs for renewable energy) as well as the high market concentration in the power generating sector to be the main reasons…

The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany continued its recovery in February 2007. Compared with minus 3.6 points in January, the indicator’s current level of plus 2.9 points is still far below its…