Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...

Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...

Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...

With the increasing competitive importance of scientific innovations associated with the new economy it has become critical to understand the dynamics of its' firm growth during this early and potentially critical stage of development. This study analyses the relationship between firm size and...

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However, the size of the estimated growth rate of total...

In der Öffentlichkeit werden Neuemissionen in erster Linie unter Renditeaspekten und damit aus Sicht des Anlegers diskutiert. Die Frage nach den Motiven des Börsengangs wird dagegen nur selten gestellt, obwohl eine nähere Untersuchung der Motivlage auch für die individuellen...

Die Bewertung innovativer Wachstumsunternehmen erfährt vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Kapitalmarktsituation und der stockenden Exit-Optionen für den externen Investor eine exponierte Bedeutung. Der Betrachtungsschwerpunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit liegt auf dem Zusammenhang zwischen...

Als Phänomen internationaler Kapitalmärkte hat das IPO-Underpricing einen besonderen Stellenwert in der Diskussion über die Kosten eines Börsenganges. Ein Aspekt, der bei dieser Diskussion bislang weder in der Theorie noch in der Empirie Berücksichtigung findet, ist der Einfluss einer...