The German economy will grow by 2.4 percent this year, especially due to strong foreign demand. Brisk investment activity continues in this economic climate; stimulus from foreign trade, however, is weakening somewhat. Despite strong consumer demand in the coming quarters, employment and economic...

Die deutsche Wirtschaft wird in diesem Jahr, nicht zuletzt getragen von einer starken Auslandsnachfrage, um 2,4 Prozent wachsen. Die rege Investitionstätigkeit setzt sich in diesem Umfeld fort. Die Impulse vom Außenhandel schwächen sich jedoch etwas ab. Trotz der in den kommenden Quartalen...

We develop a composite indicator measuring the performance of national innovation systems. The indicator takes into account both hard factors that are quantifiable (such as R&D spending, number of patents) and soft factors like the assessment of preconditions for innovation by managers. We apply...

The strong reliance of the German economy on the industry sector has been a point of criticism for years now. Germany is too strongly focused on export, making it susceptible to crises and fluctuations in demand and exchange rates, the critics allege. A non-critical look at the numbers during...

Nearly 60 percent of globally traded industrial goods are R&D-intensive. Two fifths are goods with very high research intensity (cutting-edge technology), while the remaining three fifths are goods with high research intensity (high-level technology).1 Up until the 1990s, the USA was the global...

In the recent European debt crisis, internal migration flows in the euro area reacted strongly to diverging labor market conditions. This experience points towards the prominent role of short-term business-cycle migration in the euro area and the consequent need to understand the motives behind...

The German economy has been growing significantly recently, also due to strong foreign trade, and will experience a powerful increase of 1.9 percent in 2016. In the coming quarters, the drag of the Brexit decision should become noticeable. This will dampen the year-on-year growth rate in 2017 to...

Die deutsche Wirtschaft ist - auch dank des Außenhandels - zuletzt deutlich gewachsen und wird im Jahresvergleich kräftig, um 1,9 Prozent, zulegen. In den kommenden Quartalen dürften sich die Auswirkungen der Brexit-Entscheidung bemerkbar machen. Neben einer schwächeren Dynamik des privaten...