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…
In the survey carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with Credit Suisse in October 2006, the assessment of the financial market experts regarding the current situation of…
Since the year 2002 foreign investors have on average acquired about 200 German firms per year. That is, the number of foreign acquisitions in Germany exceeds the number of German acquisitions abroad by about…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dropped slightly by 5.2 points in October. Compared with minus 22.2 points in September, the indicator's current level of minus 27.4 points is now far below…
Specialist journals count the Internet among the most frequently used advertising tools in the economic branch of IT-related service providers. About 47 per cent of the companies in this sector promote their…
The ZEW-IDI, sentiment indicator for the economic sector IT-related service providers, has slightly decreased on the third quarter 2006 by 5.5 points and is now at a level of 64.1 points. Indeed, the business…
Almost 63 per cent of the companies in Baden-Württemberg use computer-based applications to network and automate their business processes (e-business). There are however significant differences between the…