The importance of entrepreneurship for achieving economic growth in contemporary economies is widely recognized, both by policy makers and economists. However, empirical evidence linking entrepreneurship to economic growth is scarce. Empirical Analysis of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth...

This book proposes new methods of detecting causality among several dynamic variables and of estimating divisions of nominal income changes into changes in output and prices. Amano builds on established traditions of macro-dynamics and the theories of Keynes and Freidman, while providing...

This book explores how to set up an empirical model that helps with forecasting long-term economic growth in a large number of countries. It offers a systematic approach to models of potential GDP that can also be used for forecasts of more than a decade. It is an attempt to fill the wide gap...

In spite of the widespread use of the concept of potential output in economic theory and empirical applications as well as in economic policy debates, the historical background and the assumptions inherent to this concept are rarely made transparent, let alone critically questioned. Against this...

Klappentext: Sponsoring zählt zu den etablierten Instrumenten der Markenkommunikation. Angesichts der Kostenexplosion in vielen Bereichen ist die Kontrolle der Sponsoringeffektivität eine dringliche Aufgabe. Bisherige Forschungsarbeiten sind allerdings häufig undifferenziert und...

The book provides graduate students and researchers with an up-to-date survey of statistical and econometric techniques for the analysis of count data, with a focus on conditional distribution models. Proper count data probability models allow for rich inferences, both with respect to the...

Um die klassische Eventstudie zu erweitern, entwickelt Waldemar Wagner ein theoriegestütztes Verfahren. Hierfür verwendet der Autor die Methoden der Theorien Nichtlinearer Dynamischer Systeme, um neben den linearen Abhängigkeiten in ökonomischen Zeitreihen auch die Existenz und zeitliche...