Nineteen banks participated in the January 2016 ZEW Forecast Survey. Forecasts were submitted until December 22, 2015. The three-month DAX forecasts (German Share Index) remain positive. The surveyed institutes…
Professor Sascha Steffen, head of the Research Department "International Finance and Financial Management" at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), has officially taken over the professorship for…
Germany is closing in on Switzerland and Singapore, the two countries leading in international innovation rankings. Germany now ranks in fifth place in international comparison.
If German Minister of Finance, Wolfgang Schäuble, should happen to be stuck for ideas as to what to give his state ministers for Christmas, he need only read the states' proposal for reform of the German…
What began in 2007 as a crisis in the financial sector quickly expanded into a government debt crisis that continues to plague the politics and economy of Europe. The banking system has a double-edged role:…
At the beginning of the year, ZEW will participate in the ASSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco from 3-5 January 2016. The event, organised by the American Economic Association, is the world's most important…
Cesare A. F. Riillo, PhD, was a visiting researcher in ZEW's Research Department "Industrial Economics and International Management” from November 16 to December 13, 2015. He is researcher at the National…
