The beginning of the year brought a new investment option for profit-seeking investors in Germany: hedge funds. However, private investors still seem to be wary of these alternative investment products, which,…
In the second quarter of 2004, companies using the Internet as a sales channel for serving end customers (business-to-consumer e-commerce, B2C) accounted for almost 40 per cent of the total revenues in the…
The value of the ZEW-IDI, sentiment indicator for the German IT-related service providers, is 62.6 points in the second quarter of 2004. This value clearly exceeds the value of 55.4 points of the first quarter.…
At today's festive event, the Mannheim Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) will bid farewell to Ernst-O. Schulze, its Director of Business and Administration, who had accompanied the research institute…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany increased slightly in July. The indicator now stands at +48.4 points, compared with +47.4 points in June.
Despite ranging at an already high level, oil prices are not expected to relax durably in the coming years. About 200 energy market experts from energy supply, trading and service companies, as well as from the…
Despite general consensus that reforms are necessary, there is currently little evidence to suggest that the reform status of Germany is set to change. In discussions concerning the reasons for the rather…
Three quarters of the innovative businesses in Germany make use of company suggestion schemes in order to stimulate innovation. After all, high levels of international competition mean that if the generous…
