Many studies found that women-owned firms underperform when comparing performance indicators at an aggregate level. The performance gap might be attributed to gender differences in personal and firm characteristics affecting performance. However, previous studies were not able to entirely...

Das Projekt verfolgt folgende Zielsetzungen: Untersuchung der Anzahl und Entwicklung von Unternehmensgründungen im Hightech-Sektor - unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Hersteller und Anwender von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie (IKT) und Software - in Deutschland sowie Analyse...

This paper analyzes empirically the determinants of new born firms' initial size. As survival prospects of young firms tend to be linked to a firm's start-up size, a better understanding of the factors influencing start-up size is crucial. Most of the rare literature on initial firm size focuses...

The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (Mannheimer Unternehmenspanel – MUP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is the most comprehensive micro database of companies in Germany outside the official business register (which is not accessible to the public). The MUP is based on the firm...