UK and Germany have been constructed as regional policy interventions. It begins by explaining two justifications for … adding a regional dimension to venture capital policy and outlines the development of such policy in the two states. It … explains the contrasting policy regimes and the means of intervention employed. Despite their marked differences, venture …

closed political institutions were associated with higher economic inequality in a panel of early modern German cities. To …What was the impact of urban political structure on economic inequality in preindustrial times? I document that more … inequality. To mitigate concerns about reverse causality, I exploit the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) as a plausibly exogenous …

total number of business start-ups in all economic sectors. City states (urban regions) feature a substantially higher …

that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the … for 10.000 persons from a recent representative survey of the population in ten German planning regions, the Regional … entrepreneurial experience, who live in more densely populated and faster growing regions with higher rates of new firm formation …

This paper answers two rarely considered questions: How well do German regions exploit their potential to produce … exploitation efficiency, we measure the degree, to which regions have exploited their natural and socio-economic potentials of … power and biogas energy, a relative comparison of regions, monitoring their performance over time as well as the …

professions than rural or less urbanized regions. This applies to all cities with more than one million inhabitants, but for other … commerce and industry has declined. For the first time, we present data for the so-called planning regions and the 20 biggest … cities in Germany. On average, agglomerations feature a substantially higher propensity for business start-ups in the liberal …

results appear to be transferable beyond the German cases: first, the two approaches improve the knowledge about policy … which port regions are prominent nodes) is improved. Finally, some implications for regional cluster strategies are …

professions than rural or less urbanized regions. This applies to all cities with more than one million inhabitants, but for other … commerce and industry has declined. For the first time, we present data for the so-called planning regions and the 20 biggest … cities in Germany. On average, agglomerations feature a substantially higher propensity for business start-ups in the liberal …