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Unemployment benefit duration and startup success

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2020

that ignore self-employment. In this paper, we assess how UI benefit duration affects the motivation for creating a startup … consider the fiscal externality of UI on startup success when it comes to the (optimal) design of UI systems. …

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Unemployment benefit duration and startup success

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2024

consequence, more necessity entrepreneurship and worse startup outcomes in terms of sales and employment growth. We explain this …

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A structural quantitative analysis of services trade de-liberalization

Blank, Sven; Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - 2018

This paper suggests a quantifiable multi-sector-multi-country economic model of goods and services production and consumption. It calibrates overall (variable and fixed) costs to market-specific sales by sector and decomposes these costs into observable and unobservable components. In an...

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Bank mergers in the financial crisis : a competition policy perspective

Hellwig, Michael; Laser, Falk Hendrik - 2019

We analyze a large merger in the Dutch banking market during the financial crisis using disaggregated data. Based on a merger simulation model, we evaluate merger-induced changes in the interest rates for savings accounts. We find that the merging banks decreased interest rates by 3 to 5 percent...

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Demand and supply side linkages in exporting multiproduct firms

Eckel, Carsten; Flach, Lisandra; Meng, Ning - 2023

Products produced by a multiproduct firm can be linked through demand linkages or supply linkages. On the demand side, changes in the price of one product can affect the demand for a firm's other products through shifts in consumer expenditures. This is commonly referred to as the...

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The value of publicly available, textual and non-textual information for startup performance prediction

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kuhn, Johan M. - 2020

startup characteristics to forecast the performance of newly started enterprises over a five years' time horizon. The … predict startup performance with either high or very high accuracy with the exception of high returns on assets where … derived from the BPS texts while an accurate prediction of startup survival and high employment growth needs the combination …

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Assessment of German-Pakistani relations in trade, investment and strategic cooperation

Mahmood, Talat - 2014

German-Pakistani relations cannot be analyzed in isolation of the larger domestic and international trajectories, economic and political, on both sides of the partnership. After a recent democratic power transfer in 2013, Pakistan continues to face complex challenges. The instable security...

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Markup responses to Chinese imports

Meinen, Philipp - 2016

This paper analyzes markup responses of Danish firms to Chinese imports. Besides negative markup responses due to competitive pressure, we present some evidence for marginal cost savings related to Chinese intermediate goods imports which tend to raise firm-level markups.

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Artificial intelligence and firm-level productivity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P.; Rammer, Christian - 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often regarded as the next general-purpose technology with a rapid, penetrating, and far-reaching use over a broad number of industrial sectors. A main feature of new general-purpose technology is to enable new ways of production that may increase productivity. So...

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The impact of German public support transfers on firm finance : evidence from the Covid-19 crisis

Gärtner, Leo; Marek, Philipp - 2022

The economic policy response to COVID-19 lockdowns included a variety of measures. Their effects on non-financial firms, however, remain unclear. To shed light on the effect of transfers, we investigate the effect of German emergency aid transfers (November-December aid), a program designed for...

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