We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents' ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...

In dieser Arbeit wurde erstmalig eine theoretische und empirische Analyse des Innovations- und Investitionsverhaltens von westdeutschen Unternehmen durchgeführt. Dazu verwendete der Autor zwei Unternehmenspanels, die aus periodischen Unternehmensbefragungen des ifo Instituts, München, gebildet...

Entrepreneurship, Growth and Innovation provides comprehensive insight into the economics of entrepreneurship, claiming that this recently established discipline should establish a framework of analysis that integrates the understanding of the determinants and the effects of both...