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Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment: An Empirical Investigation
Keilbach, Max; Engel, Dirk - 2002
statistical matching procedure we draw an adequate control group of non venture funded firms. The analysis gives evidence that …
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Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment: An Empirical Investigation
Keilbach, Max; Engel, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
statistical matching procedure we draw an adequate control group of non venture funded firms. The analysis gives evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098256
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Does Work Time Flexibility Work? An Empirical Assessment of the Efficiency Effects for German Firms
Wolf, Elke; Beblo, Miriam - 2004
In this paper we assess the impact of flexible work time schedules on firm efficiency using representative establishment data for Germany. Following the approach by Battese and Coelli (1995), we estimate a stochastic production frontier and the determinants of technical efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297373
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Financial constraints for R&D and innovation: New evidence from a survey experiment
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Giebel, Marek - 2021
We utilize a new survey experiment to evaluate the existence and degree of financial constraints for R&D in the economy. The experiment does not only allow to deduct the presence of financial constraints, but also to evaluate their economic significance. Using data on German companies, we find...
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Internationalisation of high-tech start-ups and fast growth-evidence for UK and Germany
Bürgel, Oliver; Fier, Andreas; Licht, Georg; Murray, Gordon - 2000
For firms acting in technological niches the expansion into foreign markets can be a way to increase sales and to thus to recover initial sunk costs over a shorter time frame. Our research, based on survey data for nearly 600 British and German high-tech start-ups, examines whether...
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The shadow of death: an empirical analysis of the pre-exit performance of young German firms
Almus, Matthias - 2000
This paper makes an empirical contribution to confirm the stylized fact that the performance of firms deteoriates in the years before exit. For this reason we evaluate whether market exits differ significantly in their employment development in the years before market drop-out compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297707
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Die Auswirkungen öffentlicher Gründungsförderung auf das Überleben und Wachstum junger Unternehmen
Almus, Matthias; Prantl, Susanne - 2001
Unternehmensentwicklung haben oder ob beobachtbare Unterschiede zwischen geförderten und nicht geförderten Unternehmen vor allem auf die … causal effects a statistical matching procedure is used to draw an adequate control group from the pool of all available … control firms for comparison with the treatment group of assisted firms. The empirical analysis shows significant positive …
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Evaluating the impact of public start-up assistance: results from an econometric approach
Almus, Matthias - 2001
This paper analyzes the medium-term growth performance of firms that exclusively received start-up assistance from programs administered by the Deutsche Ausgleichsbank (DtA), a state owned bank, within two years after startup. I apply a parametric selection approach that controls for two...
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True Versus Spurious State Dependence in Firm Performance: The Case of West German Exports
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian - 2004
This paper analyzes the persistence of firms' exporting behavior in a panel of West German manufacturing firms. Dynamic binary choice models allow us to distinguish between true and spurious state dependence in firm performance. Using random effects models as well as a recent fixed effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297405
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ICT, Consulting and Innovative Capabilities
Cerquera Dussán, Daniel - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of the decision to contract ICT consulting on firms' innovative incentives. The paper develops a theoretical model and estimates some of its implications for a sample of German firms. In particular, the paper estimates the average treatment effect of the decision...
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