The upcoming demographic crisis in Germany demands fundamental reforms of the pension system. In a democracy, reforms are, however, only feasible when they are supported by the majority of the electorate. To determine whether the majority is in favor of reforms of the pension system, we...

We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started in response to the reform are, on average, smaller,...

Dem Gutachten über die gesamtwirtschaftlichen Wirkungen der Existenzgründungspolitik sowie der mit öffentlichen Mitteln geförderten Unternehmensgründungen basierte neben ausgiebiger Literaturanalyse und zahlreichen Expertengesprächen vor allem auf Modellrechnungen und einer Befragung von...

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival...