In the future, banks will strengthen their focus on branches as distribution channels. In particular, branches will offer more counselling to their customers. To attract customers to branches, banks are…
Worldwide mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities have decreased considerably in the first quarter of 2008. The ZEW-ZEPHYR M&A-Index finished at 113 points in March 2008. In December 2007 the Index had been…
The economic optimism for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) continues to rise in April. This is signalled by a considerable increase of the CEE indicator by 9.9 points to now minus 12.5 points. It is the largest…
The Financial Market Test Switzerland, carried out by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in cooperation with the Credit Suisse, revealed in April a nearly unchanged picture regarding the prospects…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany declined in April 2008 by 8.7 points and now stands at minus 40.7 points after minus 32.0 points in the previous month. This is still well below its…
About one third of the companies in the economic sector IT-related service providers use at least one social software application for (their) internal or external communication with their customers or…
In Germany the business situation of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) service providers, comprising enterprises of the branches software and IT-services, ICT-specialized trade as well as…
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, increased its earnings in the business year 2007. The earnings rose to 14.72 million Euros and thus notably exceeded previous year’s result (14.15…
China’s share of the international M&A market has markedly increased since the turn of the century. Both the value and the number of transactions in which Chinese enterprises participated, either as a buyer or…
