• ZEW-Konjunkturerwartungen verbessern sich
• EZB: Experten erwarten höhere Inflationsrate in Europa
• USA: Einschätzung der konjunkturellen Lage bleibt positiv
• Japan: Konjunkturelle Lage verbessert sich erneut
• Großbritan…

• Fertility of Immigrants Influenced by Cultural Norms in Countries of Origin
• The German ICT Sector is Highly Active Abroad
• The Employment Effects of Innovation Differ Between Domestic and Foreign Owned Firms
• Set-Up-…

In many countries, apprenticeship training plays a major role for school leavers to enter the labour market. Despite the importance of the apprenticeship degree, dropout of apprenticeship training is frequent:…

Energy efficiency improvements, i.e. a more prudent use of scarce and polluting resources while simultaneously maintaining a certain level of output, are considered one of the most promising measures to meet…

• Generally More Optimistic
• Inflation Expectations Broadly Unchanged
• Expectations of a Weaker CHF Increase
• Mixed Sentiment for Gold
• Special Questions: Valuation of Asset Classes

Informational asymmetries abound in anonymous markets, such as those opening in the internet almost every day. In particular, before trading takes place, the typical buyer does not know whether her anonymous…

In 2012, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim increased its total revenues by 2.3 million euros to 20.5 million euros. It was in particular the growth of third-party funding which…