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Funding Self-Employment : The Role of Consumer Credit
Kneiding, Christoph - 2012
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular installment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal...
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The Link Between R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Are Micro Firms Different?
Baumann, Julian - 2016
We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel, we examine to what extent micro firms are different...
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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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German Financial State Aid during COVID-19 Pandemic : Higher Impact among Digitalized Self-Employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...
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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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