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The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP) and firm statistics for Germany

Bersch, Johannes; Gottschalk, Sandra; Müller, Bettina; … - 2014

The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (Mannheimer Unternehmenspanel – MUP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW …

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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel : design and research potential

Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009

Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the … yearly panel waves computer-aided telephone interviews (CATI) are conducted with about 6,000 start-up firms from almost all … industries. The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel will for the first time enable profound analyses of the temporal development of newly …

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What determines the inclusion in a sustainable stock index? : A panel data analysis for European companies

Ziegler, Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

influence of unobserved heterogeneity in the framework of panel data models. The analysis shows that the probability for an …

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Ability matching and survival of start-ups

Müller, Bettina - 2009

In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...

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Dynamic R&D choice and the impact of the firm's financial strength

Peters, Bettina; Roberts, Mark J.; Vuong, Van Anh - 2015

This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affcts its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from its...

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Growth determinants of start-ups in Eastern Germany : a comparison between innovative and non-innovative firms

Almus, Matthias; Nerlinger, Eric A.; Steil, Fabian - 1999

This empirical analysis deals with the determinants of growth and the explanation of variations in the growth between innovative and non-innovative start-ups. Based on theoretical models explaining the growth of firms, hypotheses on potential determinants are formulated. The regression results...

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Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance : an empirical analysis for Germany

Januszewski, Silke I.; Köke, F. Jens; Winter, Joachim - 1999

econometric analysis of firm performance in Germany. Based on a unique panel data set with detailed information on almost 400 …

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The performance of German firms in the business-related service sectors : a dynamic analysis

Nguyen-Van Phu; Kaiser, Ulrich; Laisney, François - 2000

provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents' ordinal indication of their …

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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, … - 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...

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