Using firm-level survey data for the West German manufacturing sector, this paper revisits the technology …-driven business cycle hypothesis for the case of aggregate investment. We construct a survey-based measure of technology shocks to … gauge their contribution to short-run investment fluctuations. We estimate an upper bound for the contribution of technology …

start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …

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 …

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

vary in their pattern of new firm location. In East Germany, only 5 percent of the industries reveal start-up localization … patterns beyond what natural advantages would suggest compared to 40 percent in West Germany. -- Entrepreneurship ; location …

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 …

Germany or the United Kingdom. The evidence shows that German firms that receive ECF stand a higher chance of obtaining follow …, we find that some of these factors have a differential impact for Germany and the United Kingdom. …