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Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment: An Empirical Investigation

Keilbach, Max; Engel, Dirk - 2002

The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms. Among other variables, our panel of firm data includes data on venture capital funding and patent applications. With a statistical matching procedure we draw an adequate control...

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Assessing Voluntary Commitments: Monitoring is Not Enough!

Böhringer, Christoph; Frondel, Manuel - 2002

This paper deals with a special type of voluntary approach to protect the environment, for example, that we would like to term voluntary commitment. Its major characteristic is that it represents a unilateral declaration without a decisively active role of regulators. In other words, voluntary...

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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...

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Reforming Social Welfare as We Know It? A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 2003

reduction of the social assistance withdrawal rate and an earnings-related tax credit. The expected employment and fiscal … expenditures may be substantial, although the expected labour supply and employment effects of this reform are much smaller than is …. Furthermore, these employment gains come at the cost of a substantial expansion of public-works jobs. …

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Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the...

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Will the (German) NAIRU Please Stand up?

Franz, Wolfgang - 2003

This paper deals with a critical assessment and a reestimation of the "non-accelerating in ation rate of unemployment" (NAIRU) for Germany. There are quite a few obstacles to perceiving the NAIRU as an understandable and easy-to-use analytical instrument, suitable for economic policy: the...

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The Connection of Stock Markets Between Germany and the USA: New Evidence From a Co-integration Study

Eberts, Elke - 2003

run. Thus, the estimation period shows that with increasing forecasting horizon predictability of simple real returns of …

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Spatial Externalities and Empirical Analysis: The Case of Italy

Mion, Giordano - 2003

In the last ten years the space issue, i.e. the study of the role played by space in economic phenomena, has attracted a lot of interest from many economic fields. The combination of increasing returns, market imperfections, and trade costs creates forces that, together with factor endowments,...

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Knowledge Flows, R&D Spillovers and Innovation

Peri, Giovanni - 2003

Knowledge flows within and across countries should be carriers of important learning spillovers. We use data on 1.5 million patents and 4.5 million citations to analyze knowledge flows across 147 subnational regions. We estimate that only 15% of average knowledge is learned outside the average...

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Changes in Union Membership Over Time: A Panel Analysis for West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Beck, Martin - 2003

declining dramatically since the early 90's. However, aggregate gross membership numbers do not distinguish by employment status … industry level based on the IAB employment subsample for the time period 1985 to 1997. …

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