FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The sale of Germany's biggest retail bank Deutsche Postbank could fail because the price potential bidders are willing to pay does not meet the expectations of the lender's parent, Deutsche Post, a German magazine reported on Saturday. Business...
Germany's governmental credit agency for reconstruction (or Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) was founded after World War II to provide and administer the funds needed to rebuild the young Federal Republic of Germany. The Metasys system provides individual comfort control in the facility's 550 rooms via the LON-network, which is connected to...
Despite a dramatic increase in solar cell production in the United States last year -- up 48 percent to 266 megawatts -- the nation's share of global production and installations continued to fall in 2007, according to the latest Vital Signs Update from the Worldwatch Institute, produced in collaboration with...
High-tech companies comprise both large and small companies in semiconductors and components, enterprise computing, data communications equipment, end-user devices and consumer electronics, software and services, and industrial electronics. The focus of the work presented in this paper is on all of these except semiconductors and components. Supply chains typically face...
This paper presents estimates of differences in Total Factor Productivity TFP across three types of firms operating in 23 manufacturing and 18 service industries in Germany in the period 1995-2004. It is the first attempt to study whether and to what extent foreign MultiNational Enterprises MNEs are more productive relative...
Germany is well known as a country with many unfunded pension liabilities. However, many companies are reviewing their approach to pension funding and there is a move towards the concept of matching assets to pension liabilities. This article takes a look at some of the issues driving this trend and...
Terrorism is now recognized as a national issue because it has a potentially debilitating impact on the social and economic activities of a country. This paper investigates how the public and private sectors have established partnerships for covering terrorism risk as a reaction to the 2001 terrorist attacks. The paper...
The introduction in 1996 of free choice among sickness funds in Germany was accompanied by a "Risk Structure Compensation" RSC mechanism based on average spending by age and sex. Because chronically ill people were not adequately taken into account, competition for newly insured consumers concentrated on the healthy. The introduction...
In recent comparative works on the constitutional structures of contemporary liberal democracies, the United States and Germany have been grouped together as examples of democratic systems with an exceptionally high degree of ?Institutional pluralism?. In other typologies both countries have even been classified as ?Semisovereign democracies?. As the comparative assessments...
Using a data set of the firms listed on the Neuer Markt in Germany, this paper demonstrates that venture backed firms differ from firms with other financial resources, especially debt. Thus, the results of the study presented in this paper provides evidence for the hypothesis that small and innovative firms...
The telecom services sector reached double-digit annual productivity growth rates in the 1990s. It contributed substantially to overall productivity growth in the three countries being analyzed: France, Germany, and the US. The paper depicts that while most other sectors lag, telecommunications services have given a big boost to productivity in...
France, Germany, the US and Japan are the world's four largest automotive producing countries. The automotive sector is a major employer, contributor to GDP, and contributor to the value added in the national economies. Under threat of declining sales and stagnating vehicle markets at home and abroad, in the early...
Retail banking is one of the largest industries both in terms of value added and employment. It also accounts for over 10 percent of national IT spending, making it especially interesting for the examination of the role of IT innovations. Despite improved labor productivity in retail banking from 1994 to...
This paper analyzes a comprehensive data set of 160 non venture-backed, 79 venture-backed and 61 bridge financed companies going public at Germany's Neuer Markt between March 1997 and March 2002. One examine whether these three types of issues differ with regard to issuer characteristics, balance sheet data or offering characteristics....
Using a newly constructed data set, this paper compares sources of funds and investment strategies of venture capital VC funds in Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK. Sources of VC funds differ significantly across countries, e.g. banks are particularly important in Germany, corporations in Israel, insurance companies in Japan, and...
This paper compares sectoral and firm-level adjustment processes, modes of innovation, and processes of change, and also focuses on examples of and possibilities for cross-border and cross-sectoral learning in Germany and the United States. In one way or another, each chapter also explores the proposition that the benefits of German...
Vacci-Test Corporation ("Vacci-Test") is pleased to announce that its French subsidiary, Vacci-Test Europe ("VTE"), has launched its first human diagnostic test, VACCI-TESTTM -Tetanus in France and Germany. The product is being distributed by Groupe ServioBio, one of Europe's largest distributors of point-of-care diagnostic tests to hospitals and emergency clinics. VACCI-TESTTM...
PROS Europe Forum Endorsed by European Pricing Platform & Technology Sponsor Microsoft LONDON & HOUSTON -- PROS, a world leader in pricing and revenue optimization science and software, today announced open registration for the PROS Europe Pricing & Revenue Optimization Forum - 2008. The conference is to be...
TOYAKO, Japan -- We, the leaders of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States met as the world's major economies in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan, on 9 July, 2008, and...
Making Progress Toward A Future International Climate Change Agreement TOYAKO, Japan -- THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Toyako, Japan) Today, 17 leaders of the Major Economies held an unprecedented summit in Toyako, Japan, to advance shared objectives of reducing...
