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Founder's human capital, entry strategies and start-up size
Gottschalk, Sandra; Müller, Kathrin; Niefert, Michaela - 2009
This paper analyzes empirically the determinants of new born firms' initial size. As survival prospects of young firms tend to be linked to a firm's start-up size, a better understanding of the factors influencing start-up size is crucial. Most of the rare literature on initial firm size focuses...
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Does R&D-infrastructure attract high-tech start-ups?
Engel, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - 2000
Our research, based on the ZEW-Foundation Panel East, examines whether high-tech start-ups are mainly founded in scientific and infrastructural well suited regions or not. Estimation results on the level of postcode areas confirm the hypothesis that specific human capital, knowledge spillovers...
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Impact of Service Station Networks on Purchase Decisions of Alternative-fuel Vehicles
Achtnicht, Martin; Bühler, Georg; Hermeling, Claudia - 2008
consumers' willingness to pay for an enlarged fueling infrastructure. We examine a stated preferences choice experiment …-types are changing with a modified fueling infrastructure. In our scenarios hybrids, LPG/CNG and hydrogen will be real … situation where their infrastructure is equally developed. Moreover, on the basis of our model we compute what increases in …
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Impact of service station networks on purchase decisions of alternative-fuel vehicles
Achtnicht, Martin; Bühler, Georg; Hermeling, Claudia - 2012
In this paper, we study the impact of fuel availability on demand for alternative-fuel vehicles, using data from a survey of some 600 potential car buyers in Germany. The survey was conducted as a computer-assisted personal interview and included a choice experiment involving cars with various...
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The European electronic communications code: A critical appraisal with a focus on incentivizing investment in next generation broadband networks
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Cambini, Carlo; Fetzer, Thomas; … - 2017
Electronic Communications Code (EECC) - with one key aim being the provision of sufficient incentives for infrastructure …
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Speeding up the internet: Regulation and investment in European fiber optic infrastructure
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Cambini, Carlo; Grajek, Michał - 2017
incentives to invest in network infrastructure. To this end, we develop a theoretical model explaining investment incentives by …
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Abschreibungsraten allgemeiner und beruflicher Ausbildungsinhalte
Ludwig, Volker; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2005
In dieser Arbeit werden Abschreibungsraten allgemeiner und beruflicher Ausbildungsinhalte im Erwerbsleben untersucht. Es wird analysiert, ob die Ausbildungsinhalte des Dualen Ausbildungssystems im Zeitalter der Akademisierung und der Computerrevolution eine beschleunigte Abschreibung erfahren...
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Human capital and innovation in East and West German manufacturing firms
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1997
The paper analyses the theoretical and empirical relationship between employment, skill structure and innovation in East and West German manufacturing firms. The econometric part builds on firm data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel 1993, 1994 and 1995. In the German industrial sector,...
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East West German wage convergence - How far have we got?
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1997
At the start of the German unification process it was a commonly held view that east German living conditions will converge to west Geman levels within a few years. This view was not only held by notoriously optimistic politicians but also by a great many of professional economists. With...
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1997
Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...
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