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German Financial State Aid During COVID-19 Pandemic : Higher Impact Among Digitalized Self-Employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...
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Estimating the Benefits of R&D Subsidies for Germany
Koehler, Mila - 2018
2011. The analysis is based on a structural model of the R&D subsidy process which allows to estimate the benefits of R … of the subsidy on the federal government's utility as well as on firm profits.Assuming a welfare-maximizing federal … profits are similar to effects on spillovers to the rest of the German economy. Besides results show that the subsidy rate …
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Who Gets the Money? The Dynamics of R&D Project Subsidies in Germany
Aschhoff, Birgit - 2009
-intensive service firms, this paper sheds light on the structure of the subsidy recipients over time. It turns out that participation in …
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The Link between R&D Subsidies, R&D Spending and Technological Performance
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin - 2015
This paper analyzes the effects of public R&D funding on R&D expenditure and patenting behavior of German firms. The main focus is the direct impact of subsidies on R&D and the indirect effect on innovation output measured by patent applications. We distinguish the productivity of purely...
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Founder Personality and Start-up Subsidies
Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2023
Start-up subsidies play an important role in supporting start-up innovation and performance. However, what characteristics help and hinder start-ups to seek start-up subsidies remains unclear. We study whether and how founder personality, as captured by the big five personality traits and...
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Factors Influencing German House Owners’ Preferences on Energy Retrofits
Achtnicht, Martin; Madlener, Reinhard - 2012
In this paper, we identify key drivers and barriers for the adoption of building energy retrofits in Germany, which is promoted by public policy as an important measure to address the future challenges of climate change and energy security. We analyze data from a 2009 survey of more than 400...
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Total Costs and Budgetary Effects of Adaptation to Climate Change : An Assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel - 2010
Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed and regionalised cost estimates as a basis for cost-benefit-analyses are rare. We compose available cost estimates for adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland...
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Fiscal Integration in the Eurozone : Economic Effects of Two Key Scenarios
Dolls, Mathias - 2013
The 2008-09 crisis has shown that some euro area member countries were unable to sufficiently stabilize their economies which has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. In this paper, we analyze the redistributive and stabilizing effects of two scenarios of fiscal...
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The German Labour Market Reforms in a European Context : A DSGE Analysis
Fries, Claudia - 2013
While a widespread consensus exists among macroeconomists that the German labour market reforms in 2003-2005 have successfully contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate, critics claim that the reforms led to wage restraint and consequently consumption dampening accompanied by...
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Financial Sector-Output Dynamics in the Euro Area : Non-Linearities Reconsidered
Schleer, Frauke - 2013
We analyze the feedback mechanisms between economic downturns and financial stress for euro area countries. Our study employs newly constructed financial condition indices that incorporate extensively banking variables. We apply a nonlinear Vector Smooth Transition Autoregressive (VSTAR) model...
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