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Does Quality Make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups

Fritsch, Michael - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...

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International Benchmarking in Electricity Distribution : A Comparison of French and German Utilities

Cullmann, Astrid - 2009

Germany, the two largest electricity distribution countries in Europe. We examine the relative performance of 99 French and 77 …

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Unobserved Heterogeneity and International Benchmarking in Public Transport

Cullmann, Astrid - 2010

We analyze the technical efficiency of German and Swiss urban public transport companies by means of SFA. In transport networks we might face different network structures or complexities, not observed, but influencing the production process. The unobserved factors are typically modeled as...

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What Drives the Productive Efficiency of a Firm? The Importance of Industry, Location, R&D, and Size

Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2008

This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...

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Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry : First Evidence from Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013

Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of …

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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture : Germany 1925-2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012

We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...

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Benchmarking and Firm Heterogeneity in Electricity Distribution : A Latent Class Analysis of Germany

Cullmann, Astrid - 2009

In January 2009 Germany introduced incentive regulation for the electricity distribution sector based on results …

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Potential Gains from Mergers in Local Public Transport : An Efficiency Analysis Applied to Germany

Walter, Matthias; Cullmann, Astrid - 2009

Germany's most densely populated region, North Rhine-Westphalia. We merge them into geographically meaningful, larger units …

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Next Stop : Restructuring? A Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis of German Public Transport Companies

von Hirschhausen, Christian; Cullmann, Astrid - 2009

companies in Germany (1990-2004). We apply both deterministic data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrapping to test the …

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Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael - 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany …

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