Business and Finance
This area provides up-to-date and interesting developments from the world of business, economics and finance.
A wealth of information is available on topics ranging from stock markets, consumer climate, labor market policies, bond markets, foreign trade and interest rate trends to stock exchange news and economic forecasts.
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…
How Strong Brands Translate into Money
The Marketing Department’s main goals are to make brands more recognizable and increase sales. The Finance Department’s work is aimed at safeguarding the…
Demographic change depresses tax revenues
In the next decades, population aging in Germany will accelerate and also induce a decline of the total population. These demographic changes can be expected…