This paper analyzes the medium-term growth performance of firms that exclusively received start-up assistance from programs administered by the Deutsche Ausgleichsbank (DtA), a state owned bank, within two years…
This study analyses the effects of public R&D policy schemes on the innovation activities of firms located in Eastern Germany. This is the first study which considers the effects of public R&D programmes in a…
The determinants of transitions between different states of financial distress are analyzed using two versions of Markov chain models: a multinomial logit model without random effects and a multinomial logit…
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschreibt die Konzeption und Erhebung der ZEW-Gründerstudie. Bei dieser im Jahre 1999 am ZEW durchgeführten telefonischen Unternehmensbefragung wurde auf Basis der ZEW-Gründungspanels Ost…
Changing product quality, rapid technological progress, and short product life cycles make it difficult to compute indices that correctly reflect the true price movements of IT products. This paper assesses…