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 …

as well as pooled mean group and mean group estimators, the latter in a dynamic heterogeneous panel framework. We find … share ; dynamic heterogeneous panel models …

panel random coefficient model, we show that financial experts have systematically misperceived the ECB's interest rate rule …. -- Central bank communication ; Interest rate forecasts ; Survey expectations ; Panel random coefficient model …

We use comparable micro level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically specified empirical models to …

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 …

on German linked survey and administrative data. To study the causal relationship between unemployment and multiple … effects of job loss are long-lasting, growing more profound the longer the duration of unemployment and persisting following …