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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579325
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009567088
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Conducting Simulation Experiments to Test Historical Explanations : The Historical Development of the German Dye Industry 1857-1913
Brenner, Thomas; Murmann, Johann Peter - 2018
In a simulation experiment, building on the abductive simulation approach of Brenner and Werker (2007), we test historical explanations for why German firms came to surpass British and France firms and to dominate the global synthetic dye industry for three decades before World War 1 while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036271
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture : Germany 1925-2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2011
Studies for established market economies such as West Germany (Fritsch and Mueller, 2007), and Sweden (Andersson and Koster, 2011) have shown that regional start-up rates tend to show a relatively high level of persistence and path dependency over periods of 10-15 years. One main reason for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522629
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News media, common information, and sectoral comovement : conference paper
Buchen, Teresa - 2014
This paper investigates whether information complementarities can explain the strong patterns of sectoral comovement … decisions are based on aggregate information rather than sector-specifi c information, because the former is less costly … media coverage of economic news in Germany, we find that a higher volume of economy-wide news indeed signifi cantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484401
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Optimistic, but not in control : life-orientation and the theory of mixed control
Urbig, Diemo; Monsen, Erik - 2009
taking and observe a gender effect for one of our new hypotheses. -- Information ; knowledge ; uncertainty ; search … ; learning ; information and knowledge ; communication ; belief ; expectations ; speculations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809924
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Financial advisors : a case of babysitters?
Hackethal, Andreas; Chaliasos, Michaēl; Jappelli, Tullio - 2009
We merge administrative information from a large German discount brokerage firm with regional data to examine if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003864097
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Herding with and without payoff externalities : an internet experiment
Drehman, Mathias; Oechssler, Joerg; Roider, Andreas - 2005
effects, first-mover advantage, etc.) in a standard information-based herding model. Our results are based on an internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003380747
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Parental investment and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences and attitudes
Zumbühl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2013
children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765617
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Is soccer good for you? : the motivational impact of big sporting events on the unemployed
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014
We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230888