This paper deals with a critical assessment and a reestimation of the "non-accelerating in ation rate of unemployment … occurrence of shocks and hysteresis effects, the (mis-)measurement of important variables such as in ation expectations …

. Using unique panel data, we find that households who report storm damage increased their risk taking. We do not find …

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

This paper is concerned with fiscal externalities arising from local taxation of a mobile factor. Using a panel of more …

applied to a newly constructed panel for Germany. Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation techniques for dynamic panel …

relationship using panel data on German start-up firms as well as German patent data. It employs different indicators of patenting … activity. By applying fixed-effects and first-differencing panel data methods it is shown that patenting activity has a …

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 …

This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …