The impact of fiscal policy on economic activity is still a matter of great debate. And, ever since Keynes first commented on it, interwar Britain, 1918- 1939, has remained a particularly contentious case | not least because of its high debt environment and turbulent business cycle. This debate...

Family firms are typically associated with negative characteristics, including lower tendencies towards innovation, a higher risk of failure, and inefficiencies deriving from nepotism among family members, criticisms which are even greater when the company is handed over to a female relative....

In a famous paper, Kenneth Sokoloff argued that the labor input of entrepreneurs was generally not included in the count of workers in manufacturing establishments in the early censuses of manufacturing. According to Sokoloff, this biased downward econometric estimates of economies of scale if...

We characterize female-owned manufacturing establishments using newly digitized manuscripts from the US Census of Manufactures (1850, 1860, 1870, 1880). Female-owned establishments were smaller than male-owned establishments and had lower capital-to-output ratios, which could reflect...

In dieser Arbeit wird unternehmerischer Ein- und Austritt untersucht. Beide Phänomene werden meist als eindimensionale Ereignisse erachtet. Aus diesem Grund setzt die Arbeit bei der Mehrdimensionalität dieser Konstrukte an. Im ersten Hauptkapitel wird die Marktneuheit einer Geschäftsidee bei...

In dieser Arbeit wird unternehmerischer Ein- und Austritt untersucht. Beide Phänomene werden meist als eindimensionale Ereignisse erachtet. Aus diesem Grund setzt die Arbeit bei der Mehrdimensionalität dieser Konstrukte an. Im ersten Hauptkapitel wird die Marktneuheit einer Geschäftsidee bei...