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Public policy and success of business start-ups in Germany
Eckl, Verena; Rothgang, Michael; Welter, Friederike - 2009
In this paper, we evaluate the success of publicly supported business start-ups by comparing the outcomes of various support measures. Our question is: do business starter get what they need? Since we do not know the needs of the founders we analyse (1) who received which kind of support...
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Female hires and the success of start-up firms
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903646
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Immigration and new firm formation : evidence from a quasi-experimental setting in Germany
Jahn, Vera; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2018
placement policy in Germany in the 1990s for immigrants of German origin from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Our … den 1990er und 2000er Jahren bei ihrer Einreise nach Deutschland einer bestimmten Region zugewiesen wurden. Unsere Panel …
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US-euro area monetary policy interdependence : new evidence from Taylor Rule based VECMs
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Cui, Yuhua (contributor) - 2009
This paper analyses the monetary policy interdependence between the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve (Fed) for the period 1999-2006. Two models are specified: a partial Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) and a general VECM. In the partial VECM, we look for a long-run...
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Inflation forecasting with inflation sentiment indicators
Döhrn, Roland (contributor);  … - 2008
indicators for the US and Germany, we demonstrate that our inflation sentiment indicators improve forecast accuracy in comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003785071
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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012
Effekt einer ansteigenden linguistischen Distanz auf den Spracherwerb von Immigranten in Spanien, den USA und Deutschland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580162
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Nonlinear adjustment, purchasing power parity and the role of nominal exchange rates and prices
Beckmann, Joscha - 2011
close scrutiny. Using monthly data from 1973:01 to 2009:12 from the USA, UK, Germany, France and Japan, this paper as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580305
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Sticky prices vs. sticky information : a cross-country study of inflation dynamics
Bredemeier, Christian; Goecke, Henry - 2011
betrachtet dazu die Inflationsdynamiken in sechs verschiedenen Ländern (USA, Großbritannien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Kanada und … six countries (US, UK, Germany, France, Canada, and Japan). We evaluate the models‘ abilities to match empirical second … parametrizations, sticky information performs better in France while sticky prices dominate in the UK and Germany. Sticky prices match …
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How stable are monetary models of the dollar-euro exchange rate? : a time-varying coefficient approach
Beckmann, Joscha; Belke, Ansgar; Kühl, Michael - 2009
This paper examines the significance of different fundamental regimes by applying various monetary models of the exchange rate to one of the politically most important exchange rates, the exchange rate of the US dollar vis-à-vis the euro (the DM). We use monthly data from 1975:01 to 2007:12....
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A comparative analysis of the nativity wealth gap
Bauer, Thomas K.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, … - 2007
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