Die Gründungsfinanzierung kennzeichnet ein unternehmerisches Problemfeld, das - wie etliche weitere Aspekte der Unternehmensgründung - zunächst in den USA theoretisch und vor allem empirisch untersucht wurde und seit den 90er Jahren auch in Deutschland zunehmend Beachtung in der...

After the kick off workshop we see the need to cluster the mentioned topic that interrelate with each other. We have clustered the single topics discussed in the workshop in the following topics:(...)

The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...

This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits and further personality characteristics, which...

What began as a financial crisis in the United States in 2007-2008 quickly evolved into a massive crisis of the global real economy. We investigate the importance of the bank lending and firm borrowing channel in the international transmission of bank distress to the real economy - in...

The finding that industrial sectors differ in their dependence on external finance for sector-specific technological reasons and, thus, rely to a different degree on financial development has become a major concept in studies conducted on both growth and trade. Although natural resources might...