CANTNER, UWE; KRÜGER, JENS J.; RHEIN, KRISTINA VON - In: Economica 76 (2009) 301, pp. 132-148
The paper investigates how pre-entry experience, post-entry experience and innovative activity affected the survival of German automobile firms over the period 1886-1936. A statistical survival analysis is performed which links instrumental variable estimation with the Cox regression. The main...