• Weaker Business Expectations for Chinese Economy
• 42 analysts participated in the January survey, which was conducted during the period 3 till 17 January 2017

• Optimistischer Jahresauftakt
• Euroraum: Konjunkturerwartungen leicht verbessert
• USA: Seitwärtsbewegung der Konjunkturerwartungen
• Japan: Lageeinschätzung erneut verbessert
• Großbritannien: Konjunkturausblick…

• Public Spending Expected to Remain High
• German Companies Rre Projected to Increase Activities in China
• China Can Become a Major Competitor for Silicon Valley

We use a dataset of 615 firms which participated in 114 illegal cartels – convicted by the European Commission between 1999 and 2016 – to investigate the determinants of the duration of a firm’s participation in…

This paper examines how local governments adjust their spending, savings and taxes in response to a temporary revenue windfall generated by a housing boom and how they cope with the inevitable shortfall that…

Über die ZEW-Innovationserhebung

• Seit 1993 erhebt das ZEW jährlich Daten zum Innovationsverhalten der deutschen Wirtschaft
• Die Innovationserhebung wird im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und …

Over the last decade Germany has boosted renewable energy in power production by means of massive subsidies. The flip side are very high electricity prices which raise concerns that the transition cost towards a…

We apply a quadratic expenditure system to estimate price and expenditure elasticities of residential energy demand (electricity and heating) in Germany. Using official expenditure data from 1993 to 2008, we…