Diese Studie untersucht die Umsetzung des am 1. August 2006 eingeführten Gründungszuschusses nach § 57 und § 58 SGB III auf Basis von qualitativen Interviews, Interaktionsbeobachtungen und Dokumentenanalysen. Das qualitative Forschungsdesign erlaubt es zu eruieren, auf welche Weise die...

A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a...

In this paper we analyse the impact of governmental grant provision on plant performance. To this end we utilise rich information derived from three data sources for the manufacturing sector in Ireland, where grant provision has been an important part of the industrial policy. We use a matching...

Statistics Finland maintains a database which includes firm level data on public support in Finland. During this study it contained data from the years 2000-6. So far the data has been underutilized in economic and statistical analyses. We use the database in this descriptive study mainly to...

Competition policy has seen quite significant changes over the past years. With the reform of Merger Control and the application of Article 81 (agreements) an 'effects-based, economic approach' was formally introduced by the Commission. Two other areas of competition policy are under discussion,...

Die Auswirkungen des IRA auf die heimische Wirtschaft der Vereinigten Staaten sind umstritten. Empirische Studien zu den Auswirkungen des IRA auf Handelspartner, insbesondere Deutschland, liegen nicht vor. Deskriptive Statistiken zeigen, dass die Vereinigten Staaten insbesondere im Bereich der...