out both for West Germany - a mature market economy - and for East Germany, which operated under a centrally planned …. -- Entrepreneurship ; Rapid firm growth ; Strategy ; Management ; West Germany ; East Germany …

re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour …, of higher pre-war female labour supply in East Germany, this paper shows an almost negligible long-term socialist … German women in work in pre-War Germany. The paper exemplifies that considering the pre-separation history of Germany is …

from a socialist planned system to a market economy in East Germany. Relatively high start-up rates are found in regions …

There is a large and successful literature exploiting the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural … participation (FLFP) in East Germany as compared to West Germany. The starting point of the analysis is the empirical pattern that …

. In this process, the poorly functioning socialist system of East Germany adopted the formal institutions and organization … of West Germany, a western-style market economy. We investigate the effect of this integration on patenting activity by …, the gap between East and West Germany widened considerably over time. This divergence in innovation activity suggests that …