The expansion of enterprise level datasets has led to the emergence of a large body of literature on patterns of employment and job dynamics across different enterprise types. In the context of India, where MSMEs have been traditionally supported and encouraged by different policy initiatives to...

We present a model of the impact of state aid on equilibrium market structure and on market performance in an integrating market when the process of integration is driven by consumer inertia. In a partial equilibrium model, it is an equilibrium for governments to grant state aid, even though...

Mittelständisch strukturierte Unternehmen, die die eng definierten Grenzen für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) sprengen, spielen eine große Rolle in der deutschen Metall- und Elektro-Industrie (M+E-Industrie). Diese Unternehmen mit 250 bis unter 3.000 Mitarbeitern werden auch als...

Despite the relevance in terms of policy, we still know little in Spain about where and by whom jobs are created, and how that is affecting the size distribution of firms. The main innovation of this paper is to use a rich database that overcomes the problems encountered by other firm-level...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the European Commission's approach to state aid for foreign direct investment in a competition policy framework. The Commission shows to consider variable cost aid (VCA) to be more distortive than start-up or fixed cost aid (FCA). This paper addresses that...

Die Struktur der deutschen Unternehmenslandschaft wird durch die von der Europäischen Union (EU) vorgegebene strikte Trennung zwischen kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen mit weniger als 250 Beschäftigten einerseits und Großunternehmen andererseits nur schlecht wie-dergegeben. Denn die deutsche...

Mittelständisch strukturierte Unternehmen, die die eng definierten Grenzen für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) sprengen, spielen eine große Rolle in der deutschen Metall- und Elektro-Industrie (M+E-Industrie). Diese Unternehmen mit 250 bis unter 3.000 Mitarbeitern werden auch als...

Despite the relevance in terms of policy, we still know little in Spain about where and by whom jobs are created, and how that is affecting the size distribution of firms. The main innovation of this paper is to use a rich database that overcomes the problems encountered by other firm-level...

The expansion of enterprise level datasets has led to the emergence of a large body of literature on patterns of employment and job dynamics across different enterprise types. In the context of India, where MSMEs have been traditionally supported and encouraged by different policy initiatives to...

The paper is devoted to the realization of wireless enabled clothing, employing recent new technologies in electronics, textile, and renewable power. This new wireless enabled clothing architecture is modular and distributed, allowing for customization in functionality and clothing designs. Are...