In diesem Discussion Paper fassen wir Ergebnisse aus unseren Umfragen zu künstlerischen Interventionen zusammen, die wir zwischen 2011 und 2014 mit Künstlern, Arbeitnehmern und Projektleitern/Managern in spanischen Organisationen erhoben haben. Nach einer ausführlichen englischsprachigen...

R&D expenditures of firms varies vastly between and within industries. In recent years a lot of theoretical and empirical studies attempted to explain the distribution of R&D expenditures. Four main factors repeatedly appeared in this literature: Firm size, market power, appropriability and...

In this paper, we report results of an ongoing empirical analysis of firm dynamics in East Germany. After discussing specifics of a newly available data set with information on more than 100.000 firms, we analyze patterns of business starts and failures. Furthermore, we present preliminary...

In this paper, we analyse the influence of firm characteristics and the regional environment on employment growth of East German manufacturing firms between 1992 and 1996. Our results confirm the negative impact of firm size and age on employment growth found in various studies for several...

At the start of the German unification process it was a commonly held view that east German living conditions will converge to west Geman levels within a few years. This view was not only held by notoriously optimistic politicians but also by a great many of professional economists. With...

This paper deals with the innovation behavior and the R&D activities at the firm level in East Germany. The theoretical and empirical analyses lead to the conclusion that the relatively low level of the R&D intensity in East Germany is a reflex of the relatively weak economy, especially the...

Im Untersuchungsfeld 1 stand die Frage im Vordergrund, ob und in welchem Maße sich bei der Umsetzung des SGB II in den Grundsicherungsstellen systematische Unterschiede oder Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen ARGEn und zkT beobachten lassen.