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Self-Employment after Socialism : Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104020
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Stepping Forward : Personality Traits, Choice of Profession, and the Decision to Become Self-Employed
Fritsch, Michael - 2013
We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086982
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2013
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits — the Big Five — on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044236
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2011
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits — the Big Five — on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187263
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Strategic Action in the Liberalised German Electricity Market
Lise, Wietze; Kemfert, Claudia; Tol, Richard S.J. - 2003
Nowadays, a process can be observed in Germany where electricity producing and trading firms react to the electricity … improvement of environmental conditions without governmental regulation in Germany. This is done by modelling different strategic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325032
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Energy-capital-labor substitution and the economic effects of CO 2 abatement: Evidence for Germany
Kemfert, Claudia; Welsch, Heinz - 1998
use econometrically estimated, sectorally differentiated elasticities of substitution for Germany to shed some light on … emission limits for Germany. In particular, we consider the implementation of emission limits by means of a carbon tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608444
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Theliberalisation process of the German electricity market: Strategies and opportunities
Kemfert, Claudia - 1999
Within this paper an oligopolistic German electricity market is modelled by a game theoretic modelling tool representing a Nash equilibrium. Due to European electricity market liberalisation electricity producing and trading firms react strategically like global market players by joining and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608558
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Reaching national Kyoto-targets in Germany by maintaining a sustainable development
Bayer, Stefan; Kemfert, Claudia - 2000
Within this paper, we analyse the fulfilment of the Kyoto-emissions reduction com-mitment exemplary in Germany and its … implication on long-term paths of all macro-variables. Germany, like all other industrial or Annex B coun-tries, has to reduce its … adjusted discounting (GAD) in comparison to conventional OLG-models. We show that within our model-framework Germany is able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608661