Since the announcement of the European Central Bank’s Outright Monetary Transaction Programme (OMT), lending rates for Eurozone countries in high levels of debt have sunk to a level that cannot be justified by…
Professor Van Anh Vuong, PhD, was a visiting researcher at ZEW's Research Department "Industrial Economics and International Management” from August 24 to 28, 2015. She is Assistant Professor for applied…
The sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone has prompted the architects of conventional European fiscal rules to show some particular creativity. In order to take control of the situation, existing fiscal policy…
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) contributed actively to the 2015 Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS, German Economic Association) held at the University of Münster from 6 to…
The recently published "Funding Atlas 2015" of the German Research Foundation (DFG) has impressively confirmed ZEW’s strong research focus on European issues. According to the DFG funding ranking, the Mannheim…
Following the plunge in stock prices in China and the subsequent slump of the leading index at US stock markets, the German DAX has recently also dropped below the 10,000-point mark. With a view on the economic…
