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Business Cycles and Start-ups across Industries: An Empirical Analysis of German Regions

Konon, Alexander; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2018

We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and...

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Persistence and change of regional new business formation in the national league table

Fritsch, Michael; Kublina, Sandra - 2016

, persistence in regional determinants of new business formation, distinct regional cultures of entrepreneurship, and path …We investigate persistence and change of the levels of regional new business formation in West Germany over a period of … generally find a rather high level of persistence and confirm the role of several sources of this persistence, namely …

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Entrepreneurship, structural change, and economic growth

Noseleit, Florian - 2011

this process. This paper aims to shed some light on the relation between entrepreneurship and growth by arguing that … entrepreneurial activity relates to growth via reallocation of factors across sectors. While the importance of entrepreneurship for … the complex relation between entrepreneurship and growth. …

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Does quality make a difference? : employment effects of high- and low-quality start-ups

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2010

entrepreneurship policy, which can be derived from our findings. …

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One transition story does not fit them all : initial regional conditions and new business formation after socialism

Fritsch, Michael; Kristalova, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020

We investigate the reasons for the pronounced regional differences of new business formation after the transformation from a socialist planned system to a market economy in East Germany. Relatively high start-up rates are found in regions that had a well-qualified workforce and a relatively high...

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Business cycles and start-ups across industries : an empirical analysis for Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Konon, Alexander; Kritikos, Alexander - 2017 - This version: August 25, 2017

We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. We mostly find correlations that are consistent with coun- ter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and non-in- novative industries. Entries into the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738571

Start-ups, long- and short-term survivors and their effect on regional employment growth

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010

We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...

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Productivity Dynamics Beyond-the-Mean in U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Krüger, Jens J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

The approach of quantile regression is used to explore the fine details of the relation of current period and lagged productivity levels. Productivity is calculated as total factor productivity by a nonparametric approach using data for U.S. manufacturing industries on the three- and four-digit...

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On the Dynamics of the U.S. Manufacturing Productivity Distribution

Krueger, Jens J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

.S. manufacturing industries over the period 1958-96. The conclusion of a substantial role of persistence in the productivity …

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Sources for regional unemployment disparities in Germany: Lagged adjustment processes, exogenous shocks or both?

Kunz, Marcus - 2009

Die Studie untersucht Veränderungen der Arbeitslosenquote in westdeutschen Kreisen im Zeitraum 1992-2004 mit Hilfe der Chain Reaction Theory of unemployment (CRT). Die Schätzungen zeigen, dass sowohl Anpassungsprozesse als auch exogene Schocks für die Veränderungen verantwortlich waren....

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