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Marktdynamik und Innovation : Gedächtnisschrift für Hans-Jürgen Ewers
Fritsch, Michael (ed.); Ewers, Hans-Jürgen (honouree) - 2004
arbeitsteilige Organisation von Innovationsprozessen sowie das von Hans-Jürgen Ewers maßgeblich mitentwickelte Konzept der … Deregulierungspolitik in Deutschland, Probleme der Fusionskontrolle, Strategien beim Ausbau der Infrastruktur in den osteuropäischen … schwerpunktmäßig die Organisation von Wettbewerb. Ein weiteres Thema ist hier die Zufriedenheitsdynamik bei gewerblichen …
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How efficient is the East German economy? : an exploration with micro data
Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...
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How efficient is the East German economy? : An exploration with microdata
Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - In: The economics of transition 10 (2002) 1, pp. 201-223
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Who cooperates on R & D?
Fritsch, Michael; Lukas, Rolf - 1998
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Self-employment after socialism: Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...
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Threshold effects and regional economic growth – Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2001
We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on the growth of West German regions. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a...
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Spatial R&D spillovers and economic growth: Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000
The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that empha-size the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...
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The cross-sectional dynamics of German business cycles: a bird's eye view
Döpke, Jörg; Funke, Michael; Holly, Sean; Weber, Sebastian - 2005
We establish some stylised facts for Germany's business cycle at the level of the firm. Based on longitudinal firm-level data from the Bundesbank's balance sheet statistic covering, on average, 55,000 firms per year from 1971 to 1998, we analyse the reallocation across individual producers and,...
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Contests for Cooperation: A New Approach in German Innovation Policy
Eickelpasch, Alexander; Fritsch, Michael - 2005
A new approach in German innovation policy organizes contests of proposals for developing innovation networks. Based on an overview of the different programs, we investigate the advantages, problems and limitations of such an approach. We find that this type of policy may have a relatively large...
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