R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth …

In a model where firms face a continuous choice of how much to invest in environmental innovation, we show that an ever …

While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany's productivity declined … dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany's productivity demise using the ifo industry growth … reduction in German labor hours, our data show that Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) investment in Germany was …

Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …

default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany … Germany's public finances against the standard theoretical back‐ground using a unique database, retrieved from multiple …, contradicting the historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks …

Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender …