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Microtechnology industry is hiring – positive developments of past years continue
Staff numbers und turnover are constantly rising in the microtechnology industry
RWI/ISL-Container Throughput Index with minor decline on a high overall level
The index is based on data continuously collected from world container ports by ISL as part of its market monitoring. Because large parts of international…
The RWI/ISL-Container Throughput Index started off well in 2018
The Container Throughput Index of the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the ISL – Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics recorded a…
RWI/ISL-Container Throughput Index ending 2017 on a positive note
The Container Throughput Index of the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the ISL – Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics was able to…
Uncovering decades of questionable investments
One of the key principles in asset pricing — how we value everything from stocks and bonds to real estate — is that investments with high risk should, on…
Corporate coworking as a driver of innovation
Three years ago, the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO released “The Fascination of Coworking – Potentials for Companies and their Employees.”
Mathematical confirmation: Rewiring financial networks reduces systemic risk
A tax on systemically risky transactions could reshape financial networks into a new structure that is less vulnerable to cascading financial system shocks…
Europe's microtechnology industry is attuned to growth
Global economic, social and political developments as well as technological disruptions like the digital transformation do not leave the representatives of the…
Preferential trade agreements enhance global trade at the expense of its resilience
The global commodity trade is a complex system where its network structure, which may arise from bilateral and multilateral agreements, affects its growth and…