find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …

Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that …

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …

that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the …

Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the …

information on nascent entrepreneurs at the regional level, and the lack of it for Germany, let us start the research project … Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Germany in 2000. As part of this project, we performed a representative survey of the …