We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at … university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West …

We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We … Germany does not help to improve its fiscal sustainability, and only an increase in the retirement age to 70 years will help …

A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter …-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship, there are many challenges to creating a definition that is both objective and empirically feasible. We propose an …

energy deployment. The numerical results reveal that the long term subsidies in Germany set prices that provide higher …

Southwest Germany around 1900. Agglomeration effects and earlier firm creations stimulate current firm creation. In addition, a …

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 background using a unique database, retrieved from multiple sources … historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks in time series …

newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability …