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Does federalism affect e-government in Germany?
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang-woon; Steinhoff, Peter - 2023
International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired "top spot" in rankings lie primarily in the inadequate provision of online services with little corresponding user orientation. In order to provide better and faster public...
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How new airport infrastructure promotes tourism : evidence from a synthetic control approach in German regions
Dörr, Luisa; Dorn, Florian; Gäbler, Stefanie; … - 2019
We examine how new airport infrastructure influences regional tourism. Identification is based on the conversion of a military air base into a regional commercial airport in the German state of Bavaria. The new airport opened in 2007 and promotes travelling to the touristic region Allgäu in the...
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Lifting the iron curtain : school-age education and entrepreneurial intentions
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015
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 German control group received formal and...
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Age-specific entrepreneurship and PAYG public pensions in Germany
Heer, Burkhard; Trede, Mark - 2020
We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We document that both earnings and income are more concentrated among entrepreneurs than among workers and describe a large-scale overlapping-generations model that can replicate...
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Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship : two components of business creation
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2018
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 …
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It's all in Marshall : the impact of external economies on regional dynamics
Audretsch, David B. (contributor); Falck, Oliver (contributor) - 2007
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Drifting together or falling apart? : The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany
Colavecchio, Roberta (contributor);  … - 2005
The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...
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Growth and convergence in a two-region model of unified Germany
Funke, Michael; Strulik, Holge - 1999
The paper sets up a two-region endogenous growth model to discuss growth and regional convergence of unified Germany. It emphasises the role of private and public capital accumulati on during the developing process. The theoretical part derives fiscal policy rules which establish convergence of...
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Regional industrial effects in Germany from a potential gas deficit
Lehmann, Robert; Schult, Christoph - 2023 - This version: October 12, 2023
We estimate potential regional industrial effects in case of a threatening gas deficit. For Germany, the reduction leads to a potential decrease in industrial value added by 1.6%. The heterogeneity across German states is remarkable, ranging from 2.2% for Rhineland-Palatinate to 0.7% for...
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New region, new chances : does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?
Ehrenfried, Felix; Fackler, Thomas; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022
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