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Is Venture Capital a regional business? - The role of syndication

Fritsch, Michael; Schilder, Dirk - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

We investigate whether the supply of Venture Capital (VC) in Germany is driven by spatial influences. The study is based on information from more than 300 VC investments made in Germany between 2004 and 2005. We find evidence that the geographical distance between a VC company and the portfolio...

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The Effect of New Business Formation on Regional Development over Time: The Case of Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

We investigate the effects of new business formation on employment change in German regions. A special focus is on the lag-structure of this effect and on differences between regions. The different phases of the effects of new business formation on regional development are relatively pronounced...

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The Persistence of Regional New Business Formation-Activity over Time - Assessing the Potential of Policy Promotion Programs

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

entrepreneurship. These factors also seem to be responsible for changes in the level of regional new business formation. In addition …

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The Apple doesn't Fall far from the Tree: Location of Start-Ups Relative to Incumbents

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

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The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Not Just a Matter of Personality

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander; … - CESifo - 2014

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household … panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

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