The US Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate by 0.25 per cent, to a range of 0.5 to 0.75 per cent. Professor Friedrich Heinemann, head of the "Corporate Taxation and Public Finance" Research Department…
Yesterday, the federal government published its "Old-Age Security Report 2016". According to the report, it is crucial that people in Germany make additional private retirement provision for old age, since the…
According to data released today by Eurostat, the European Statistical Office, the number of information and communication technologies (ICT) specialists in the EU rose by almost 1.5 million people in the…
After a lengthy political dispute over a required reform of the German inheritance tax system, the mediation committee of the Federal Government and the Länder has reached a compromise. Professor Christoph…
Today, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published the 2016 edition of Education at a Glance, comprising the OECD’s annual indicators on education. Dr. Friedhelm Pfeiffer, deputy…
For the President of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Achim Wambach, the decision reached today by the Federal Constitutional Court in regard to the ECB's OMT programme constitutes a wise middle…
