1. Financial Market Report Switzerland // 2011

    May 2011

    • Economic Expectations Brighten up Again
    • Eurozone: Further Interest Rate Hikes Anticipated
    • USA: Economic Expectations Hold Steady
    • Japan: Assessment of Economy Noticeably Gloomier
    • Great Britain: Inflation Expected to…
  2. Financial Market Report CEE // 2011

    May 2011

    • Economic Expectations for Central and Eastern Europe Recover Slightly
    • Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia: Currencies Expected to Appreciate
    • Croatia, Hungary, and Romania: Inflation Concerns Slow down
    • Turkey:…
  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-030 // 2011

    Entrepreneurs from Low-Skilled Immigrant Groups in Knowledge-intensive Industries – Company Characteristics, Survival and Innovative Performance

    Technology entrepreneurship is an important facilitator for the introduction of new products and for the diffusion of innovations throughout the economy. It is therefore an important contributor to long-term…

  4. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2011

    Mai 2011

    • Erwartungen etwas verhaltener
    • EZB: Experten rechnen mit weiteren Zinserhöhungen
    • USA: Konjunkturerwartungen etwas schwächer
    • Japan: Erwartungen trüben sich deutlich ein
    • Großbritannien: Erwartungen erhalten Dämpfer
    • Sond…
  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-029 // 2011

    What Does Ex-post Evidence Tell us About the Output Effects of Future Tax Reforms?

    As a result of the global economic recession there is renewed interest in the effects of taxation on economic performance: many countries attempted to use tax cuts as a means to stimulate aggregate demand and…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2011

    Disconnected Young Adults in Germany: Initial Evidence

    Disconnectedness among young adults can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school, unemployment and the lack of a partner are among the most important ones. In our sample of…

  7. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2011

    Technologieakquisition und Marktstellung

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-028 // 2011

    International Diversification Benefits with Foreign Exchange Investment Styles

    Style-based investments and their role for portfolio allocation have been widely studied by researchers in stock markets. By contrast, there exists considerably less knowledge about the portfolio implications of…