Our research, based on the ZEW-Foundation Panel East, examines whether high-tech start-ups are mainly founded in scientific and infrastructural well suited regions or not. Estimation results on the level of postcode areas confirm the hypothesis that specific human capital, knowledge spillovers...

The paper investigates the impact the provision of public capital has on the demand for private capital and labour using a cost function with public capital included as a fixed unpaid factor of production. Special attention is paid to the examination of the influence tax vs. debt financing of...

Flexibles Carsharing bietet in den Städten eine Alternative zum privaten PKW-Besitz. Der mögliche Beitrag dieser Dienstleistungen zu einer Reduktion der Autoanzahl wird aber immer wieder kontrovers diskutiert. Die empirische Datenbasis zu dieser Frage ist bisher noch relativ klein. Die...

Capital flows and real estate are pro-cyclical, and real estate has a substantial weight in economies' income and wealth. In this paper, we study the role of real estate markets in the transmission of bank flow shocks to output growth across German cities. The empirical analysis relies on a new...