German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose … SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …

companies. We find that SME tax incentives are a commonly used measure among European policy makers. The vast majority of … examine the arguments potentially justifying the usage of SME tax incentives. As a main result, small firms per se do not … commonly associated with SMEs - and possibly warranting the use of SME tax incentives - can therefore not be confirmed. Instead …

German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose … SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …

This paper focuses on finding starting-values for maximum likelihood estimation of Vector STAR models. Based on a Monte …