Basierend auf der Gewerbeanzeigenstatistik untersuchen wir die Entwicklung des Existenzgründungsgeschehens in 401 Kreisen und kreisfreien Städten in Deutschland im Zeitraum 2003 bis 2019. Das Gründungsgeschehen der Kreise variiert erheblich während des gesamten Zeitraums. Am aktuellen Rand...

We run a randomized controlled trial coupled with lab-in-the-field social network experiments in urban Dakar. Decision spillovers and health externalities play a large role in determining uptake of sanitation technology, with decision spillovers being largest among households that don’t...

Traditionally, communities have offered economic development incentives to encourage companies to re-locate and bring jobs to their areas. The recent shift to remote work, and specifically work-from-anywhere, has potentially decoupled the location of the employer from the location of the worker....

Using state-level data on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and public official corruption, this paper examines whether formal sector productive (unproductive) entrepreneurial activity is associated with lower (higher) levels of informal economic activity....

Recognising the indispensable role of fighting corruption in the quest for, and measure of, effective institutions, this paper looks into unrecognised or neglected interrelations between corruption and other pertinent indicators that could enhance institutional performance. In particular, it...

China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources, population sizes, and which have adopted different strategies of economic growth in the past. China has been following consistently a strategy of Export Led Growth (ELG), while...

Der deutsche Vereinigungsprozess wird aus verschiedenen Perspektiven unterschiedlich beurteilt. Die Darstellungen reichen von kaum vorstellbaren Erfolgen bis bin zu einer Traumatisierung der Bevölkerung der östlichen Bundesländer. Sechs Thesen sollen die gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche...

Das sozialistische Wirtschaftssystem der DDR brach 1990 zusammen. Nach der Wiedervereinigung war es das Kernziel des Aufbaus Ost, einen Wirtschaftssektor in Ostdeutschland (der ehemaligen DDR) zu schaffen, der im internationalen Wettbewerb bestehen kann. Die ehemaligen sozialistischen Betriebe...

Charcoal is an important cooking fuel in urban Africa. In this paper, we estimate the current number of charcoal users and project trends for the coming decades. Charcoal production is often not effectively regulated, and it hence contributes to forest degradation. Moreover, charcoal has adverse...

This paper first presents a comprehensive analysis of the significance of different transmission channels of the global economic and financial crisis to Sub-Saharan African countries. It then examines the repercussions of the crisis for the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) and its...