This article tests the hypothesis that financial supply-side shifts help to explain the low-investment climate of … private firms in Germany. The core contention is that a firm's financial position contributes to its access to external …

This paper analyzes gender differences in the investment activity of German small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs … if they invest, then their average investment rate is lower. These differences cannot entirely be explained by firm or … owner characteristics. Furthermore, women's investment is less sensitive to cash flow, which indicates that it is unlikely …

incentive effects of such reforms on the SMEs’ investment decisions adopting simple present value model. Ceteris paribus tax …

This study tests for financial constraints on Ramp;D investment and how they differ from capital investment. To … constraints, measured by mark-ups, are more decisive for Ramp;D than for capital investment. For external constraints, we find a … monotonic relationship between the level of constriction and firm size for both types of investment. Thus, external constraints …

Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) in Deutschland gemäß der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung (VGR). Ergebnis ist, dass die …