The ZEW/gif office market forecast is a semi-annual survey which has been conducted since the middle of 2010. Real estate companies are asked for their forecast about vacancy rates, prime rents and prime yields…
The rapid growth of international trade and cross ownership during the last decades has changed the structure of economic interdependencies in the world economy. Empirical research provides evidence of the…
This project is part of the department’s research activity in the field Expectation Formation in Financial Markets. It addresses the question “How to explain the heterogeneity in the predicting ability of…
The joint diagnosis is an instrument for evaluating the overall economic situation and development in Germany, the euro area and the rest of the world. The ZEW cooperates in this project with the Kiel…
The ideological orientation of governments can affect the economic performance in various ways. The political-economic partisan politics literature provides lots of evidence that the ideological orientation…
The project used a common conceptual framework to develop and apply tools that enable assessment and comparison of CSR impacts – at micro (company), meso (sectoral and regional) and macro levels (nations…
Accounting-based valuation models play a prominent role not only in empirical valuation research, but also in the practice of business valuation. The main characteristic of these models is their use of input…
The objective of this study is a comparison of German support programs for venture capital with support programs in the following countries: USA, UK, France, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, and Japan. …